Chromacris speciosa

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Chromacris speciosa
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Caelifera
Family: Romaleidae
Genus: Chromacris
Species:
C. speciosa
Binomial name
Chromacris speciosa
Thunberg, 1824
Synonyms

Chromacris stolli(Pictet & Saussure, 1887) [1] [2] [3] [4]
Rhomalea stolli Pictet & Saussure, 1887 [5] [6]
Acridium xanthopterum Hahn, 1836 [7] [8] [9]
Gryllus speciosus Thunberg, 1824

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Chromacris speciosa, also known as the soldier grasshopper, is a grasshopper belonging to the family Romaleidae. It is distributed across Central America and South America. It was first described in 1824 by Swedish naturalist Carl Peter Thunberg. [10]

Taxonomy

This species belongs to the family Romaleidae which belongs to the suborder Caelifera. [11] There are a few synonyms of Chromacris speciosa including Chromacris stolli, Rhomalea stolli, Acridium xanthopterum, and Gryllus speciosa. [4] [12]

Both the lectotype and syntype of this species were collected in Amapá, Brazil. [10]

Habitat

It has general distribution across South America and Central America. They can be found in countries such as Ecuador (Andes), Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, eastern Brazil, Peru, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Argentina. [11] [13] [12] [14]

It prefers bush environment with vegetation principally consisting of species in the families such as Solanaceae, Myrtaceae, and Gramineae. [15]

Description

It is a medium-size species with a generally dark green color and orange-red hind wings. Yellow strips can be seen across its body. Nymphs of this species are black and red. [15]

References

  1. ↑ Rehn, J.A.G. (1916) The Stanford expedition to Brazil. 1911, Transactions of the American Entomological Society (Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc.) 42 (753):215-308 [284]
  2. ↑ Rehn, J.A.G. (1907) Non-Saltatorial and Acridoid Orthoptera from Sapucay, Paraguay, Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad.) 59:151-192 [174]
  3. ↑ Rehn, J.A.G. (1905) Records of some Paraguayan Orthoptera with the description of a new genus and species, Entomological News (Entomol. News) 16:37-42 [38]
  4. 1 2 Roberts & Carbonell (1982) A revision of the grasshopper genera Chromacris and Xestrotrachelus (Orthoptera: Romaleidae, Romaleinae), Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. 43(4):43-58
  5. ↑ Giglio-Tos (1897) Viaggio del Dott. A. Borelli nel Chaco Boliviano e nella Republica Argentina. X. Ortotteri, Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia Comparata della R. Università di Torino (Boll. Musei Zool. Anat. Comp. R. Univ. Torino) 12(302):1-47
  6. ↑ Pictet & Saussure (1887) Catalogue d'Acridiens [351], Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 7(9):331-376
  7. ↑ Kirby, W.F. (1910) , A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae) [374], British Museum (Natural History), London 3(2):674 pp.
  8. ↑ Scudder, S.H. (1901) Alphabetical index to North American Orthoptera described in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Occasional Papers of the Boston Society of Natural History 6:1-436 [12]
  9. ↑ Hahn (1836[1835]) , Icones Orthopterorum. Abbildungen der hautflügligen Insecten, Nurnberg 1:2 pp., 4 pls.
  10. 1 2 "Chromacris speciosa (Thunberg, 1824)". Catalogue of Life . Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands. Retrieved 3 October 2024.
  11. 1 2 Buzzetti & Carotti (2008) Annotated list of the Caelifera of Ecuador (Biodiversity of South America), Memoirs on Biodiversity 1 39-66
  12. 1 2 Cigliano, M.M.; Braun, H.; Eades, D.C.; Otte, D. (eds.). "Chromacris speciosa (Thunberg, 1824)". Orthoptera Species File. Retrieved 3 October 2024.
  13. ↑ Carbonell, Rowell, Bentos-Pereira & Porras (2007) Checklist of Orthoptera Caelifera from Colombia, Zootaxa 1594:39-59
  14. ↑ "Chromacris Walker, 1870". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 2024-10-01.
  15. 1 2 Cisneiros, Roberta Araújo; de Almeida, Argus Vasconcelos; de Melo, Gabriel Rivas; da Câmara, Cláudio Augusto Gomes (2012). "Morphometric variations in the grasshopper, Chromacris speciosa from two localities of Pernambuco in northeastern Brazil". Journal of Insect Science (Online). 12: 79. doi:10.1673/031.012.7901. ISSN   1536-2442. PMC   3593702 . PMID   23421530.
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