Alota (grasshopper)

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Alota
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Caelifera
Family: Acrididae
Tribe: Scyllinini
Genus: Alota
Bruner, 1913
Type species
Alota boliviana
Bruner, 1913

Alota is a genus of grasshoppers in the subfamily Gomphocerinae with species found in Bolivia and Colombia. [1] [2]

Species

The following species are recognised in the genus Alota: [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "genus Alota Bruner, 1913". orthoptera.speciesfile.org. Retrieved 2020-05-04.
  2. Bruner, L. 1913. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 8(3-4):446, 454.