''Trilophidia'' 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 ...
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 ...
, subfamily
Oedipodinae and the only member of the tribe Trilophidiini.
[ The recorded distribution of species is from Africa and the middle-East through to Japan and ]Malesia
Malesia is a biogeographical region straddling the Equator and the boundaries of the Indomalayan and Australasian realms, and also a phytogeographical floristic region in the Paleotropical Kingdom. It has been given different definitions. The ...
.[Orthoptera Species File (Version 5.0/5.0: retrieved 24 January 2024)]
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Species
The ''Orthoptera Species File''[ lists:
#'' Trilophidia annulata'' Thunberg, 1815 - type species (as ''Oedipoda cristella'' Stål;][Kirby WF (1910) ''A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae)'' 3(2): 674 pp.] synonym ''T. japonica'' Saussure, 1888)
#'' Trilophidia burtti'' Hollis, 1965
#'' Trilophidia cinnabarina'' Brancsik, 1893
#'' Trilophidia conturbata'' Walker, 1870
#'' Trilophidia namibica'' La Greca, 1991
#'' Trilophidia parvula'' Popov, 1985
#'' Trilophidia repleta'' Walker, 1870
# '' Trilophidia turpis'' (Walker, 1870)
Gallery
File:Trilophidia conturbata2.jpg, ''T. conturbata''
File:Trilophidia annulata.JPG, ''T. annulata''
References
External links
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Acrididae genera
Invertebrates of Southeast Asia
Oedipodinae