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Genus of grasshoppers

Tasmaniacris
Tasmaniacris tasmaniensis, Tasmanian Grasshopper, Tasmania, Australia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Caelifera
Family: Acrididae
Tribe: Catantopini
Subtribe: Russalpiina
Genus: Tasmaniacris
Sjöstedt, 1932
Species: T. tasmaniensis
Binomial name
Tasmaniacris tasmaniensis
(Bolívar, 1898)

Tasmaniacris is a genus of short-horned grasshoppers in the family Acrididae. There is one described species in Tasmaniacris, T. tasmaniensis, found in Tasmania. This grasshopper is flightless (micropterous). T. tasmaniensis is sister to the Tasmanian Russalpia species.

References

  1. "Tasmaniacris". GBIF. Retrieved 2021-09-09.
  2. Otte, Daniel; Cigliano, Maria Marta; Braun, Holger; Eades, David C. (2020). "genus Tasmaniacris Sjöstedt, 1932". Orthoptera species file online, Version 5.0. Retrieved 2020-11-24.
  3. Key, K. H. L. (1991). "On four endemic genera of Tasmanian Acrididae (Orthoptera)". Invertebrate Systematics. 5 (2): 241–288. doi:10.1071/it9910241. ISSN 1447-2600.
  4. Koot, Emily M.; Morgan-Richards, Mary; Trewick, Steven A. (2020). "An alpine grasshopper radiation older than the mountains, on Kā Tiritiri o te Moana (Southern Alps) of Aotearoa (New Zealand)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 147: 106783. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2020.106783. ISSN 1055-7903.

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Tasmaniacris


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