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Chortoicetes

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Chortoicetes
Chortoicetes terminifera, the Australian plague locust
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Caelifera
Family: Acrididae
Subfamily: Oedipodinae
Genus: Chortoicetes
Brunner v. Wattenwyl, 1893[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Calataria Sjöstedt, 1921

Chortoicetes is a genus of grasshoppers in the subfamily Oedipodinae and is notable for including the Australian plague locust.

Species

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The Orthoptera Species File[2] lists:

  1. Chortoicetes sumbaensis (Willemse, 1953) - (Sunda archipelago)
  2. Chortoicetes terminifera (Walker, 1870) - type species (as Chortoicetes yorketownensis Brancsik)

A number of species using this genus name, have been brought to synonymy:

References

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  1. ^ Brunner v. Wattenwyl 1893, Ann. Mus. Stor. nat. Genova, (2) 13, 130 [n.n.]; Brancsik 1895, Jahresh. Ver. Trencs. Com., 17-18, 249.
  2. ^ a b Orthoptera Species File genus Chortoicetes Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 (Version 5.0/5.0, retrieved 18 September 2021)
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