Gomphoceridius

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Gomphoceridius
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Caelifera
Family: Acrididae
Genus: Gomphoceridius
Bolívar, 1914
Species:
G. brevipennis
Binomial name
Gomphoceridius brevipennis
(Brisout de Barneville, 1858)
Synonyms
  • Acridium brevipennisBrisout de Barneville, 1858 [1]
  • Chorthippus brevipennis(Brisout de Barneville, 1858)
  • Gomphocerus brevipennis(Brisout de Barneville, 1858)
  • Gomphocerippus brevipennis(Brisout de Barneville, 1858)

Gomphoceridius [2] is a monotypic genus of grasshoppers containing the species Gomphoceridius brevipennis [1] and placed in the subfamily Gomphocerinae, [3] tribe Gomphocerini.

Gomphocerinae

Gomphocerinae, the slant-faced grasshoppers, are a subfamily of grasshoppers found on every continent but Antarctica and Australia.

Gomphocerini tribe of insects

Gomphocerini is a tribe of grasshoppers of the family Acrididae.

The species is found in western, mainland Europe, with a notable populations in the Pyrenees. [4] [5]

Pyrenees Range of mountains in southwest Europe

The Pyrenees is a range of mountains in southwest Europe that forms a natural border between Spain and France. Reaching a height of 3,404 metres (11,168 ft) altitude at the peak of Aneto, the range separates the Iberian Peninsula from the rest of continental Europe, and extends for about 491 km (305 mi) from the Bay of Biscay to the Mediterranean Sea.

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References

  1. 1 2 Brisout de Barneville (1858) , Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 2 (6).
  2. Bolívar I (1914) Estudios entomológicos, Segunda parte, Trabajos del Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (Serie Zoológica) (Trab. Mus. Cienc. nat., Madrid (Ser. zool.)) 20: 110 pp.
  3. Jago N (1971) A review of the Gomphocerinae of the world with a key to the genera (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 123: 205-343.
  4. Defaut (1999) Synopsis des orthoptères de France, Matériaux Orthoptériques et Entomocenotiques 2:87
  5. Herrera (1982) Catalogue of the Orthoptera of Spain, Series Entomologica 22: 1-162.