Acanthacris[1] is a genus of African grasshoppers in the subfamily Cyrtacanthacridinae.
| Acanthacris | |
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| A. ruficornis (garden locust) in Ghana | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Orthoptera |
| Suborder: | Caelifera |
| Superfamily: | Acridoidea |
| Family: | Acrididae |
| Subfamily: | Cyrtacanthacridinae |
| Genus: | Acanthacris Uvarov, 1924 |
Species
editThe 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
edit- ^ 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.