''Gymnoscirtetes'' is a genus of spur-throated 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 2 described species in ''Gymnoscirtetes''.
The genus was first described in
Samuel Hubbard Scudder's book ''Revision of the orthopteran group Melanopli (Acridiidae), with special reference to North American forms''.
Species
* ''
G. morsei''
Hebard, 1918 (Morse's wingless grasshopper)
* ''
G. pusillus''
Scudder, 1897 (little wingless grasshopper)
References
* Capinera J.L, Scott R.D., Walker T.J. (2004). ''Field Guide to Grasshoppers, Katydids, and Crickets of the United States''. Cornell University Press.
* Otte, Daniel (1995). "Grasshoppers
cridomorphaC". ''Orthoptera Species File 4'', 518.
Further reading
*
Melanoplinae
Acrididae genera
Taxa named by Samuel Hubbard Scudder
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