Spathosternum prasiniferum

Spathosternum prasiniferum
Spathosternum prasiniferum, Vietnam
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Orthoptera
Suborder:	Caelifera
Family:	Acrididae
Subfamily:	Spathosterninae
Genus:	Spathosternum
Species:	S. prasiniferum
Binomial name
Spathosternum prasiniferum (Walker, 1871)

Spathosternum prasiniferum is a species of short-horned grasshopper in the family Acrididae. It is found in Indomalaya. ^{[1] [2]}

Subspecies

These subspecies belong to the species Spathosternum prasiniferum:

• Spathosternum prasiniferum prasiniferum(Walker, 1871)
• Spathosternum prasiniferum sinenseUvarov, 1931
• Spathosternum prasiniferum xizangensisYin, 1982
• Spathosternum prasiniferum yunnanenseWei & Zheng, 2005

Description

• Colour: Generally greenish in fresh material; a broad characteristic black band running from behind eyes to pronotum along lateral carinae; tegmina light brown with longitudinal central pale marking; wings hyaline, clouded towards apex; hind femur greenish or rufotestaceous; hind tibia green. ^[3]
• Head: Convex; fastigium rounded with lateral carinulae slightly raised, more pronounced in males; foveolae obsolete; weak median carina extending over vertex; frontal ridge narrow, parallel sided, sulcated throughout; antenna 21 segmented, shorter than head and pronotum taken together. ^[3]
• Mesosoma: Pronotum flat, tricarinate, three sulci present, median carina traversed only by hind sulci; prozona almost equal to metazona; posterior margin of pronotum angulated; prosternal process antero-posteriorly compressed, bilobed, inclined backwards, base narrower; mesosternal lobes separate; metasternal lobes contiguous; hind tibia long, hardly dilated, 10-11 spines apart from apical one. ^[3]
• Metasoma: Cerci short, cylindrical; supra-anal plate blunt with longitudinal groove. ^[3]

References

1. "Spathosternum prasiniferum". GBIF. Retrieved 2021-09-09.
2. Otte, Daniel; Cigliano, Maria Marta; Braun, Holger; Eades, David C. (2020). "species Spathosternum prasiniferum (Walker, 1871)". Orthoptera species file online, Version 5.0. Retrieved 2021-09-09.
3. "Spathosternum prasiniferum prasiniferum (Walker, 1871) | Species". India Biodiversity Portal. Retrieved 2023-09-28.

External links

• Media related to Spathosternum prasiniferum at Wikimedia Commons