Chondracris
Chondracris rosea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Caelifera
Family: Acrididae
Tribe: Cyrtacanthacridini
Genus: Chondracris
Uvarov, 1923

Chondracris is a genus of grasshoppers in the subfamily Cyrtacanthacridinae erected by Boris Uvarov in 1923.[1] Species records are distributed throughout Asia: from India, southern China, Korea, Japan, Indo-China and Java.[2][3]

Species

The Orthoptera Species File lists the following (other species have now been placed in the genus Ritchiella):[2]

  1. Chondracris bengalensis Mungai, 1992
  2. Chondracris rosea (De Geer, 1773) - type species (as Acrydium roseum De Geer)

Note: a third species Chondracris capensis remains nomen dubium.[2]

References

  1. Uvarov BP (1923) A revision of the Old World Cyrtacanthacrini (Orthoptera, Acrididae). I. Introduction and key to genera. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 11: 144.
  2. 1 2 3 Orthoptera Species File (retrieved 14 November 2023)
  3. GBIF: Chondracris Uvarov, 1923
  • Media related to Chondracris at Wikimedia Commons
  • Roskov Y.; Kunze T.; Orrell T.; Abucay L.; Paglinawan L.; Culham A.; Bailly N.; Kirk P.; Bourgoin T.; Baillargeon G.; Decock W.; De Wever A. (2011). Didžiulis V. (ed.). "Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist". Species 2000: Reading, UK. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
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