Atractomorpha crenulata
| Atractomorpha crenulata | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Orthoptera |
| Suborder: | Caelifera |
| Family: | Pyrgomorphidae |
| Genus: | Atractomorpha Saussure, 1862 |
| Species: | A. crenulata |
| Binomial name | |
| Atractomorpha crenulata Fabricius, 1793 | |
Atractomorpha crenulata, commonly known as the tobacco grasshopper, is a species of grasshopper in the genus Atractomorpha.
Taxonomy
A. crenulata is a member of the genus Atractomorpha, which is part of family Pyrgomorphidae. Johan Christian Fabricius, in his 1793 book Supplementum Entomologiae Systematicae, recorded the species as Truxalis crenulatus; it was later designated A. crenulata crenulata by William Forsell Kirby in 1910. As such, A. crenulata is the type species of its genus, which was described by Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure in 1862.[1]
Three subspecies of A. crenulata are known.[2]
- A. c. crenulata (Fabricius, 1793)
- Synonyms: A. c. consobrina, A. c. obscura, A. c. porrecta, A. c. scaber
- A. c. fumosa (Bolívar, 1905)
- A. c. prasina (Bolívar, 1905)
Description
A. crenulata is greenish in color, with well-developed tegmina and rosy wings. The grasshoppers' bodies are medium-sized, whereas their antannae are short.[3]
Range and habitat
A. crenulata is distributed in India, Myanmar, Banglades, north-western Sumatra, Sri Lanka, and southern Vietnam.[3] Keith McE. Kevan argues that specimens of A. similis reported in the Lesser Sunda Islands are most likely specimens of A. crenulata.[4]
References
- ↑ "Genus Atractomorpha Saussure, 1862". Orthoptera Species File Online. Species File. Archived from the original on 4 October 2015. Retrieved 4 October 2015.
- ↑ "Species Atractomorpha crenulata (Fabricius, 1793)". Orthoptera Species File Online. Species File. Archived from the original on 4 October 2015. Retrieved 4 October 2015.
- 1 2 Hazra, Dey & Hazra 1997, p. 402.
- ↑ Kevan 1971, p. 144.
Works cited
- Kevan, Keith McE. (May 1971). "The synonymy and distribution of the crenaticeps-group of Atractomorpha Saussure, 1862 (Orthoptera, Acridoidea, Pyrgomorphidae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 50 (2): 143–159. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1971.tb00756.x.
- Hazra, A.K.; Dey, A.; Hazra, N. (1997). "Studies on the Ecology and Taxonomy of Grasshopper (Acridoidea) Fauna along the Damodar River bed Agro-Ecosystem of West Bengal". Recent Advances in Ecobiological Research 1. New Delhi: A.P.H. Publishing. pp. 399–426. OCLC 59358717.