Acanthacris

Acanthacris
	A. ruficornis (garden locust) in Ghana
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Orthoptera
Suborder:	Caelifera
Superfamily:	Acridoidea
Family:	Acrididae
Subfamily:	Cyrtacanthacridinae
Genus:	Acanthacris; Uvarov, 1924

Acanthacris[1] is a genus of African grasshoppers in the subfamily Cyrtacanthacridinae.

A. ruficornis nymph. Lateral aspect, sitting on glass window. The brown colour only develops at the final ecdysis.

A. ruficornis nymph. Ventral aspect, sitting on glass window.

Species

The following species are included:[2]

Acanthacris aithioptera Mungai, 1987
Acanthacris deckeni (Gerstaecker, 1869)
Acanthacris elgonensis Sjöstedt, 1932
Acanthacris ruficornis (Fabricius, 1787) - type species (as Gryllus ruficornis Fabricius = subsp. A. r. ruficornis)

The genus Acanthacris belongs to subfamily Cyrtacanthacridinae (W.F. Kirby, 1902),[3] of locusts (Acrididae) and other grasshoppers: order Orthoptera.

A. ruficornis is distributed throughout Africa and parts of the Arabian Peninsula, as well as in southern Spain.[4] Other species are recorded from mainland Africa.

References

Uvarov BP (1923) Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. 9 11: 144.
Mungai, M(ichael), The African grasshopper genus Acanthacris (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Cyrtacanthacridinae), Journal of Natural History, Volume 21, Number 4, July–August 1987; pp. 807-823 (17)
Brands, S.J. (comp.), 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands; accessdate Feb. 6, 2012 Archived 2009-08-24 at the Wayback Machine,
Hochkirch, A., Presa, J.J., Barranco Vega, P., García, M., Correas, J., Prunier, F., Odé, B., Ferreira, S. & Lemos, P. 2016. Acanthacris ruficornis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T15431046A70291235. Downloaded on 15 October 2019.

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[1] Uvarov BP (1923) Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. 9 11: 144.

[2] Mungai, M(ichael), The African grasshopper genus Acanthacris (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Cyrtacanthacridinae), Journal of Natural History, Volume 21, Number 4, July–August 1987; pp. 807-823 (17)

[3] Brands, S.J. (comp.), 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands; accessdate Feb. 6, 2012 Archived 2009-08-24 at the Wayback Machine,

[4] Hochkirch, A., Presa, J.J., Barranco Vega, P., García, M., Correas, J., Prunier, F., Odé, B., Ferreira, S. & Lemos, P. 2016. Acanthacris ruficornis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T15431046A70291235. Downloaded on 15 October 2019.