Rhammatocerus

Rhammatocerus[1] is a genus of grasshoppers in the subfamily Gomphocerinae and the tribe Scyllinini. There are about 16 described species in Rhammatocerus,[2][3][4][5] including R. schistocercoides, the "Mato Grosso locust".

Rhammatocerus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Caelifera
Superfamily: Acridoidea
Family: Acrididae
Subfamily: Gomphocerinae
Genus: Rhammatocerus
Saussure, 1861
Synonyms
  • Plectrophorus McNeill, 1897
  • Plectrotettix McNeill, 1897
  • Pseudostauronotus Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893
  • Scyllina Stål, 1873

Species

These 16 species belong to the genus Rhammatocerus:

  • Rhammatocerus alticola (Hebard, 1923)
  • Rhammatocerus brasiliensis (Bruner, 1904)
  • Rhammatocerus brunneri (Giglio-Tos, 1895)
  • Rhammatocerus cyanipes (Fabricius, 1775)
  • Rhammatocerus guerrai Assis-Pujol, 1997
  • Rhammatocerus palustris Carbonell, 1988
  • Rhammatocerus peragrans (Stål, 1861)
  • Rhammatocerus pictus (Bruner, 1900)
  • Rhammatocerus pratensis (Bruner, 1904)
  • Rhammatocerus pseudocyanipes Assis-Pujol, 1997
  • Rhammatocerus salinus (Bruner, 1904)
  • Rhammatocerus schistocercoides (Rehn, 1906)
  • Rhammatocerus suffusus (Rehn, 1906)
  • Rhammatocerus varipes (Bruner, 1905)
  • Rhammatocerus viatorius (Saussure, 1861) (traveller grasshopper)
  • Rhammatocerus victori Alves Dos Santos & Assis-Pujol, 2003
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References
  1. Saussure (1861) Revue et Magasin de Zoologie 2(13): 317.
  2. "Rhammatocerus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
  3. "Rhammatocerus". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
  4. Otte, Daniel; Cigliano, Maria Marta; Braun, Holger; Eades, David C. (2019). "genus Rhammatocerus Saussure, 1861". Orthoptera species file online, Version 5.0. Retrieved 2019-07-02.

Further reading
  • Otte, Daniel (1981). The North American Grasshoppers, Volume I, Acrididae, Gomphocerinae and Acridinae. Harvard. ISBN 978-0674626607.
  • Bland, Roger (2003). The Orthoptera of Michigan: Biology, Keys, and Descriptions of Grasshoppers, Katydids, and Crickets. Michigan State University Extension. ISBN 978-1565250178.
  • Capinera, J. L; Scott, R. D.; Walker, T. J. (2004). Field Guide to Grasshoppers, Katydids, and Crickets of the United States. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-0-8014-8948-8.


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