Psychomastax psylla

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Psychomastax psylla
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Caelifera
Family: Eumastacidae
Genus: Psychomastax
Species:
P. psylla
Binomial name
Psychomastax psylla
Rehn & Hebard, 1918

Psychomastax psylla, the San Jacinto monkey grasshopper, is a species of monkey grasshopper in the family Eumastacidae. It is found in North America. [1] [2] [3] [4]

Eumastacidae Family of grasshoppers

Eumastacidae are a family of grasshoppers sometimes known as monkey- or matchstick grasshoppers. They usually have thin legs that are held folded at right angles to the body, sometimes close to the horizontal plane. Many species are wingless and the head is at an angle with the top of the head often jutting above the line of the thorax and abdomen. They have three segmented tarsi and have a short antenna with a knobby organ at the tip. They do not have a prosternal spine or tympanum. Most species are tropical and the diversity is greater in the Old World. They are considered primitive within the Orthoptera and feed on algae, ferns and gymnosperms, the more ancient plant groups.

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References

  1. "Psychomastax psylla Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
  2. "Psychomastax psylla". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
  3. Otte, Daniel; Cigliano, Maria Marta; Braun, Holger; Eades, David C. (2019). "species Psychomastax psylla Rehn & Hebard, 1918". Orthoptera species file online, Version 5.0. Retrieved 2019-07-02.