Angaracris

Angaracris
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Orthoptera
Suborder:	Caelifera
Family:	Acrididae
Subfamily:	Oedipodinae
Tribe:	Bryodemini
Genus:	Angaracris Bey-Bienko, 1930
Species:	A. barabensis
Binomial name
Angaracris barabensis (Pallas, 1773)

Angaracris barabensis is a species of bandwing grasshopper which inhabits the steppes of central and northeast Asia.

Classification

The genus Angaracris at one point contained as many as nine different species, ^[1] but a 2017 paper published in Zootaxa declared them all to be synonyms of the type species, Angaracris barbarensis, making the genus monotypic. ^[2]

References

1. Childebaev, M K; Temreshev, I I; and Kolov, S V. 2013. "To the synonymy of Angaracris barabensis (Pallas, 1773) (Orthoptera, Acrididae) with clarifying the peculiarities of its feeding and distribution" published in Far Eastern Entomologist no. 263. urn : urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:D6D9140E-016B-45F4-B8B3-8E800A308855.
2. Storozhenko, S; Benediktov, A; and Huang, J. 2017. "Revision of the genus Angaracris Bey-Bienko, 1930 (Orthoptera: Acrididae, Oedipodinae) with notes on the tribe Bryodemini" published in Zootaxa vol. 4244 no. 3. doi : 10.11646/zootaxa.4244.3.9