Tauchira

For the ancient Greek city Tauchira in Cyrenaica, see Tocra.

Tauchira
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Orthoptera
Suborder:	Caelifera
Family:	Acrididae
Tribe:	Tauchirini
Genus:	Tauchira Stål, 1878
Synonyms
Bua Bolívar, 1918 Paratraulia Willemse, 1925 Servillenia Ramme, 1941 Sinacris Tinkham, 1940

Tauchira ^[1] is a genus of grasshoppers (Acrididae) in the subfamily Catantopinae and tribe Tauchirini. Species can be found in South-East Asia. ^[2]

Species

The Orthoptera Species File ^[2] lists the following:

1. Tauchira abbreviata Serville, 1838
2. Tauchira buae Bolívar, 1898
3. Tauchira damingshana Zheng, 1984
4. Tauchira grandiceps Willemse, 1928
5. Tauchira hunanensis Fu & Zheng, 1999
6. Tauchira karnyi Willemse, 1925
7. Tauchira longipennis Liang, 1989
8. Tauchira obliqueannulata Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1898
9. Tauchira oreophilus Tinkham, 1940
10. Tauchira polychroa (Stål, 18750 - type species (as Oxya polychroaStål)
11. Tauchira rufotibialis Willemse, 1925
12. Tauchira vietnamensis Storozhenko, 1992

References

1. Stål (1878) Bihang Kungl. Svenska Vet. Akad. Handl. 5(4):48
2. Orthoptera Species File (retrieved 24 November 2021)

External links

• Images at Phuket Nature Tours (grasshoppers) of Tauchira polychroa.
• Media related to Catantopinae at Wikimedia Commons
• Data related to Tauchira at Wikispecies
• Roskov Y.; Kunze T.; Orrell T.; Abucay L.; Paglinawan L.; Culham A.; Bailly N.; Kirk P.; Bourgoin T.; Baillargeon G.; Decock W.; De Wever A. (2011). Didžiulis V. (ed.). "Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist". Species 2000: Reading, UK. Retrieved 24 September 2012.