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Ligurotettix
''Ligurotettix'' is a genus of clicker grasshoppers in the family Acrididae The AcrididaeMacLeay WS (1821) ''Horae Entomologicae or Essays on the Annulose Animals'' 2 are the predominant family of grasshoppers, comprising some 10,000 of the 11,000 species of the entire suborder Caelifera. The Acrididae are best known bec .... There are at least two described species in ''Ligurotettix''. Species These two species belong to the genus ''Ligurotettix'': * '' Ligurotettix coquilletti'' McNeill, 1897 (desert clicker grasshopper) * '' Ligurotettix planum'' (Bruner, 1904) (Pecos clicker grasshopper) References Further reading * * * External links * Acrididae Articles created by Qbugbot {{gomphocerinae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ligurotettix Coquilletti
''Ligurotettix coquilletti'', known generally as the desert clicker grasshopper or creosote bush grasshopper, is a species of slant-faced grasshopper in the family Acrididae The AcrididaeMacLeay WS (1821) ''Horae Entomologicae or Essays on the Annulose Animals'' 2 are the predominant family of grasshoppers, comprising some 10,000 of the 11,000 species of the entire suborder Caelifera. The Acrididae are best known bec .... As its common name suggests, the species feeds on '' Larrea tridentata''. It is found in Central America and North America, in North America specifically in the Mojave and Sonoran deserts. Males defend individual creosote plants as mating territories, often preferring plants with lower amounts of toxic chemicals. References Further reading * External links * Gomphocerinae Articles created by Qbugbot Insects described in 1897 Orthoptera of North America Fauna of the Sonoran Desert Fauna of the Mojave Desert {{gomphocerinae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ligurotettix Planum
''Ligurotettix planum'', the Pecos clicker grasshopper, is a species of slant-faced grasshopper in the family Acrididae The AcrididaeMacLeay WS (1821) ''Horae Entomologicae or Essays on the Annulose Animals'' 2 are the predominant family of grasshoppers, comprising some 10,000 of the 11,000 species of the entire suborder Caelifera. The Acrididae are best known bec .... It is found in Central America and North America. References Further reading * Gomphocerinae Articles created by Qbugbot Insects described in 1904 {{gomphocerinae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acrididae
The AcrididaeMacLeay WS (1821) ''Horae Entomologicae or Essays on the Annulose Animals'' 2 are the predominant family of grasshoppers, comprising some 10,000 of the 11,000 species of the entire suborder Caelifera. The Acrididae are best known because all locusts (swarming grasshoppers) are of the Acrididae. The subfamily Oedipodinae is sometimes classified as a distinct family Oedipodidae in the superfamily Acridoidea. Acrididae grasshoppers are characterized by relatively short and stout antennae, and tympana on the side of the first abdominal segment. Subfamilies The ''Orthoptera Species File'' (September 2021) lists the following subfamilies of Acrididae. The numbers of genera and species are approximate and may change over time. # Acridinae MacLeay, 1821 (140 genera, 470 species), Worldwide: temperate and tropical # Calliptaminae Jacobson, 1905 (12 genera, 90 species), Africa, Europe, Asia # Caryandinae Yin & Liu, 1987 (3 genera, 100 species), Africa, Asia ## ''C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
