Corn crickets
A. discoidalis in the Kruger
Park, South Africa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Ensifera
Family: Tettigoniidae
Tribe: Acanthoplini
Genus: Acanthoplus
Stål, 1873
Species

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Acanthoplus is a genus of African bush crickets in the subfamily Hetrodinae and tribe Acanthoplini[1] (but placed previously in the Bradyporinae[2]).

Species

  • A. armativentris — corn cricket
  • A. bechuanus
  • A. cervinus — corn cricket
  • A. desertorum
  • A. discoidalis — armoured katydid, corn cricket
  • A. germanus
  • A. innotatus
  • A. jallae
  • A. loandae
  • A. longipes — long-legged armoured katydid
  • A. pallidus
  • A. serratus
  • A. spiseri
  • A. stratiotes
  • A. varicornis
  • A. weidneri[3]

References

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  1. ↑ Orthoptera Species File (Version 5.0/5.0): genus Acanthoplus Stål, 1873
  2. ↑ Bateman, Philip; Fleming, P. A. (28 April 2009). "There will be blood: autohaemorrhage behaviour as part of the defence repertoire of an insect". Journal of Zoology. 278 (4): 342–348. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.2009.00582.x. ISSN 1469-7998. Archived from the original on 16 October 2012. Retrieved 8 July 2009.
  3. ↑ "Dictionary of Common (Vernacular) Names". Nomen.at. Retrieved 18 June 2014.


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