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Spathosternum prasiniferum

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Species of short-horned grasshopper

Spathosternum prasiniferum
Spathosternum prasiniferum, Vietnam
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Caelifera
Family: Acrididae
Subfamily: Spathosterninae
Genus: Spathosternum
Species: S. prasiniferum
Binomial name
Spathosternum prasiniferum
(Walker, 1871)

Spathosternum prasiniferum is a species of short-horned grasshopper in the family Acrididae. It is found in Indomalaya.

Subspecies

These subspecies belong to the species Spathosternum prasiniferum:

  • Spathosternum prasiniferum prasiniferum (Walker, 1871)
  • Spathosternum prasiniferum sinense Uvarov, 1931
  • Spathosternum prasiniferum xizangensis Yin, 1982
  • Spathosternum prasiniferum yunnanense Wei & Zheng, 2005

Description

  • Colour: Generally greenish in fresh material; a broad characteristic black band running from behind eyes to pronotum along lateral carinae; tegmina light brown with longitudinal central pale marking; wings hyaline, clouded towards apex; hind femur greenish or rufotestaceous; hind tibia green.
  • Head: Convex; fastigium rounded with lateral carinulae slightly raised, more pronounced in males; foveolae obsolete; weak median carina extending over vertex; frontal ridge narrow, parallel sided, sulcated throughout; antenna 21 segmented, shorter than head and pronotum taken together.
  • Mesosoma: Pronotum flat, tricarinate, three sulci present, median carina traversed only by hind sulci; prozona almost equal to metazona; posterior margin of pronotum angulated; prosternal process antero-posteriorly compressed, bilobed, inclined backwards, base narrower; mesosternal lobes separate; metasternal lobes contiguous; hind tibia long, hardly dilated, 10-11 spines apart from apical one.
  • Metasoma: Cerci short, cylindrical; supra-anal plate blunt with longitudinal groove.

References

  1. "Spathosternum prasiniferum". GBIF. Retrieved 2021-09-09.
  2. Otte, Daniel; Cigliano, Maria Marta; Braun, Holger; Eades, David C. (2020). "species Spathosternum prasiniferum (Walker, 1871)". Orthoptera species file online, Version 5.0. Retrieved 2021-09-09.
  3. ^ "Spathosternum prasiniferum prasiniferum (Walker, 1871) | Species". India Biodiversity Portal. Retrieved 2023-09-28.

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Taxon identifiers
Spathosternum prasiniferum
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