| Ligurotettix coquilletti | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Orthoptera |
| Suborder: | Caelifera |
| Family: | Acrididae |
| Subfamily: | Gomphocerinae |
| Genus: | Ligurotettix |
| Species: | L. coquilletti |
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| Ligurotettix coquilletti McNeill, 1897 | |
Ligurotettix coquilletti, known generally as the desert clicker grasshopper or creosote bush grasshopper, is a species of slant-faced grasshopper in the family Acrididae. As its common name suggests, the species feeds on Larrea tridentata. It is found in Central America and North America, in North America specifically in the Mojave and Sonoran deserts. Males defend individual creosote plants as mating territories, often preferring plants with lower amounts of toxic chemicals.
References
- ^ Greenfield, Michael D.; Shelly, Todd E.; Gonzalez-Coloma, Azucena (1989). "Territory Selection in a Desert Grasshopper: The Maximization of Conversion Efficiency on a Chemically Defended Shrub". Journal of Animal Ecology. 58 (3): 761–771. doi:10.2307/5122. ISSN 0021-8790.
- "Ligurotettix coquilletti Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
- "Ligurotettix coquilletti". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
- "Ligurotettix coquilletti species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
- Otte, Daniel; Cigliano, Maria Marta; Braun, Holger; Eades, David C. (2019). "species Ligurotettix coquilletti McNeill, 1897". Orthoptera species file online, Version 5.0. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
Further reading
- Otte, Daniel (1981). The North American Grasshoppers, Volume I, Acrididae, Gomphocerinae and Acridinae. Harvard. ISBN 978-0674626607.
External links
Media related to Ligurotettix coquilletti at Wikimedia Commons
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