Acanthoxia
| Acanthoxia | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Orthoptera |
| Suborder: | Caelifera |
| Family: | Acrididae |
| Subfamily: | Hemiacridinae |
| Tribe: | Leptacrini |
| Genus: | Acanthoxia Bolívar, 1906[1] |
| Synonyms | |
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Acanthoxia is a genus of African grasshoppers in the tribe Leptacrini.[2]
Nomenclature
[edit]Pretoriana Curran, 1938 may be a junior homonym of a tachinid fly genus; a moth genus invalidly named thus by Traugott-Olsen in 1995 is now considered a junior synonym of Perittia.
Species
[edit]- Acanthoxia aculeus Grunshaw, 1996
- Acanthoxia brevipenne Grunshaw, 1996
- Acanthoxia gladiator (Westwood, 1841) - type species (as Opsomala gladiator Westwood, 1841)
- Acanthoxia lanceolata (Bolívar, 1890)
- Acanthoxia natalensis (Krauss, 1877) (synonym Ischnacrida pretoriae Miller, 1932)
References
[edit]- ↑ Bolívar I (1906) Bol. R. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. 6(7): 392.
- ↑ "genus Acanthoxia Bolívar, 1906". orthoptera.speciesfile.org. Retrieved 2020-03-03.