''Tauchira''
[Stål (1878) ''Bihang Kungl. Svenska Vet. Akad. Handl.'' 5(4):48] 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.
Grasshop ...
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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 ...
) in the subfamily
Catantopinae
The subfamily Catantopinae is a group of insects classified under family Acrididae. Genera such as '' Macrotona'' may sometimes called "spur-throated grasshoppers", but that name is also used for grasshoppers from other subfamilies, including t ...
and tribe
Tauchirini. Species can be found in South-East Asia.
[Orthoptera Species File (retrieved 24 November 2021)]
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Species
The ''Orthoptera Species File''[ lists the following:
#'' Tauchira abbreviata'' Serville, 1838
#'' Tauchira buae'' Bolívar, 1898
#'' Tauchira damingshana'' Zheng, 1984
#'' Tauchira grandiceps'' Willemse, 1928
#'' Tauchira hunanensis'' Fu & Zheng, 1999
#'' Tauchira karnyi'' Willemse, 1925
#'' Tauchira longipennis'' Liang, 1989
#'' Tauchira obliqueannulata'' Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1898
#'' Tauchira oreophilus'' Tinkham, 1940
#'' Tauchira polychroa'' (Stål, 18750 - type species (as '']Oxya
''Oxya'' is a genus of grasshoppers (Caelifera
The Caelifera are a suborder of orthopteran insects. They include the grasshoppers and grasshopper-like insects, as well as other superfamilies classified with them: the ground-hoppers (Tetrigo ...
polychroa'' Stål)
#'' Tauchira rufotibialis'' Willemse, 1925
#'' Tauchira vietnamensis'' Storozhenko, 1992
References
External links
Images at ''Phuket Nature Tours'' (grasshoppers)
of ''Tauchira polychroa''.
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Acrididae genera
Catantopinae