Boopedon nubilum | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Orthoptera |
Suborder: | Caelifera |
Family: | Acrididae |
Genus: | Boopedon |
Species: | B. nubilum |
Binomial name | |
Boopedon nubilum (Say, 1825) | |
Boopedon nubilum, known generally as ebony grasshopper, is a species of slant-faced grasshopper in the family Acrididae. Other common names include the black-males grasshopper and plains boopie. It is found in Central America and North America. [1] [2] [3] [4]
The Acrididae are the predominant family of grasshoppers, comprising some 10,000 of the 11,000 species of the entire suborder Caelifera. The Acrididae are best known because all locusts are of the Acrididae. The subfamily Oedipodinae is sometimes classified as a distinct family Oedipodidae in the superfamily Acridoidea. Acrididae grasshoppers are characterized by relatively short and stout antennae, and tympana on the side of the first abdominal segment.
These two subspecies belong to the species Boopedon nubilum:
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