Acanthoxia

Acanthoxia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Caelifera
Family: Acrididae
Subfamily: Hemiacridinae
Tribe: Leptacrini
Genus: Acanthoxia
Bolívar, 1906[1]
Synonyms
  • Conyacanthella Giglio-Tos, 1907
  • Gonyacantha Stål, 1873
  • Gonyacanthella Giglio-Tos, 1907
  • Metapa Stål, 1878
  • Pretoriana Uvarov, 1922

Acanthoxia is a genus of African grasshoppers in the tribe Leptacrini.[2]

Nomenclature

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

  1. Acanthoxia aculeus Grunshaw, 1996
  2. Acanthoxia brevipenne Grunshaw, 1996
  3. Acanthoxia gladiator (Westwood, 1841) - type species (as Opsomala gladiator Westwood, 1841)
  4. Acanthoxia lanceolata (Bolívar, 1890)
  5. Acanthoxia natalensis (Krauss, 1877) (synonym Ischnacrida pretoriae Miller, 1932)

References

  1. ^ Bolívar I (1906) Bol. R. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. 6(7): 392.
  2. ^ "genus Acanthoxia Bolívar, 1906". orthoptera.speciesfile.org. Retrieved 2020-03-03.
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