Misplaced Pages

Cyrtacanthacris aeruginosa

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
Species of grasshopper

Cyrtacanthacris aeruginosa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Caelifera
Family: Acrididae
Subfamily: Cyrtacanthacridinae
Tribe: Cyrtacanthacridini
Genus: Cyrtacanthacris
Species: C. aeruginosa
Binomial name
Cyrtacanthacris aeruginosa
(Stoll, 1813)
Cyrtacanthacris aeruginosa's territorial extent

Cyrtacanthacris aeruginosa or simply green tree locust is a large species of grasshopper that can be found in the grasslands of Africa. They pertain to the genus Cyrtacanthacris and are composed by three subspecies, C. a. aeruginosa, C. a. flavescens and C. a. goldingi, all three of them descend from a unique ancestor. The specie is univoltine, that is, it only produces one brood of offspring per year, furthermore it also experiences egg diapause, meaning that the eggs have a phase of suspended or arrested growth. In terms of overwintering strategy, Aeruginosa adults mate and then the female lay the eggs and die before the dry season, the eggs stay in diapause for 7 months and take 45–67 days to incubate.

References

  1. "Wildlife Den – South African Wildlife Photography » Green Tree Locust". Retrieved 2023-09-01.
  2. "Green Tree Locust". Project Noah. Retrieved 2023-09-01.
  3. "Green tree locust (Grasshoppers, Locusts and allies of South Africa) · iNaturalist". iNaturalist. Retrieved 2023-09-01.
  4. ^ Bam, Adrian; Addison, Pia; Conlong, Desmond (2020). "Acridid ecology in the sugarcane agro-ecosystem in the Zululand region of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa". Journal of Orthoptera Research. 29 (1): 9–16. doi:10.3897/jor.29.34626. ISSN 1082-6467. JSTOR 26976734. S2CID 210964805.
  5. Song, Hojun; Wenzel, John W. (August 2008). "Phylogeny of bird-grasshopper subfamily Cyrtacanthacridinae (Orthoptera: Acrididae) and the evolution of locust phase polyphenism". Cladistics. 24 (4): 515–542. doi:10.1111/j.1096-0031.2007.00190.x. PMID 34879633. S2CID 31148667.
  6. Jerath, M. L. (2009-04-02). "Notes on the biology of some short-horned grasshoppers from Eastern Nigeria (Orthoptera: Acridoidea)". Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London. Series A, General Entomology. 43 (1–3): 27–38. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3032.1968.tb01230.x.
Taxon identifiers
Cyrtacanthacris aeruginosa


Stub icon

This article about a member of the grasshopper family Acrididae is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Categories: