Lophotettix

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Lophotettix
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Caelifera
Infraorder: Acrididea
Superfamily: Tetrigoidea
Family: Tetrigidae
Subfamily: Lophotettiginae
Genus:Lophotettix
Hancock, 1909

Lophotettix is a genus of South American groundhoppers or pygmy grasshopper. There are about five described species in Lophotettix. [1] [2]

Tetrigidae family of insects

Tetrigidae is an ancient family in the order Orthoptera, which also includes similar families such as crickets, grasshoppers, and their allies. Species within the Tetrigidae are variously called groundhoppers, pygmy grasshoppers, pygmy devils or "grouse locusts".

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Species

These five species belong to the genus Lophotettix:

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References

  1. "Lophotettix". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-10-16.
  2. Otte, Daniel; Cigliano, Maria Marta; Braun, Holger; Eades, David C. (2019). "genus Lophotettix Hancock, 1909". Orthoptera species file online, Version 5.0. Retrieved 2019-10-16.

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