''Acanthoxia '' is a
genus
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of African
grasshopper
Grasshoppers are a group of insects belonging to the suborder Caelifera. They are among what is possibly the most ancient living group of chewing herbivorous insects, dating back to the early Triassic around 250 million years ago.
Grasshopp ...
s in the
family
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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 ...
.
''Pretoriana'' is a synonym. The
tachinid fly genus
invalidly named thus by Curran in 1938 is now ''
Gautengicesa''. The moth genus invalidly named thus by Traugott-Olsen in 1995 is now considered a
junior synonym
The Botanical and Zoological Codes of nomenclature treat the concept of synonymy differently.
* In botanical nomenclature, a synonym is a scientific name that applies to a taxon that (now) goes by a different scientific name. For example, Linna ...
of ''
Perittia''.
Species
*''
Acanthoxia aculeus''
Grunshaw, 1996
*''
Acanthoxia brevipenne''
Grunshaw, 1996
*''
Acanthoxia gladiator''
Westwood, 1841
*''
Acanthoxia lanceolata''
Bolívar, 1890
*''
Acanthoxia natalensis''
Krauss, 1877
*''
Acanthoxia pretoriae''
Miller, 1932
References
External links
{{Taxonbar, from=Q4672067
Acrididae genera
Caelifera