''Paulinia'' is a genus of
grasshoppers
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.
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in the monotypic South American subfamily Pauliniinae
Hebard, 1923 in the
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 ...
, itself a
monotypic genus erected by Blanchard in 1843 for the species ''Paulinia muscosa'': now ''Paulinia acuminata'' (De Geer, 1773).
Orthoptera Species File (Version 5.0/5.0)
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Acrididae genera
Orthoptera of South America
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