Acanthoplus
| Corn crickets | |
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| A. discoidalis in the Kruger Park, South Africa | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Orthoptera |
| Suborder: | Ensifera |
| Family: | Tettigoniidae |
| Tribe: | Acanthoplini |
| Genus: | Acanthoplus Stål, 1873 |
| Species | |
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Acanthoplus is a genus of African bush crickets in the subfamily Hetrodinae and tribe Acanthoplini[1] (but placed previously in the Bradyporinae[2]).
Species
[edit]- A. armativentris — corn cricket
- A. bechuanus
- A. cervinus — corn cricket
- A. desertorum
- A. discoidalis — armoured katydid, corn cricket
- A. germanus
- A. innotatus
- A. jallae
- A. loandae
- A. longipes — long-legged armoured katydid
- A. pallidus
- A. serratus
- A. spiseri
- A. stratiotes
- A. varicornis
- A. weidneri[3]
References
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- ↑ Orthoptera Species File (Version 5.0/5.0): genus Acanthoplus Stål, 1873
- ↑ Bateman, Philip; Fleming, P. A. (28 April 2009). "There will be blood: autohaemorrhage behaviour as part of the defence repertoire of an insect". Journal of Zoology. 278 (4): 342–348. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.2009.00582.x. ISSN 1469-7998. Retrieved 8 July 2009.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ↑ "Dictionary of Common (Vernacular) Names". Nomen.at. Retrieved 18 June 2014.
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