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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Grasshoppers (Caelifera) » Lubber Grasshoppers (Romaleidae) » Dragon Lubbers (Dracotettix)

Genus Dracotettix - Dragon Lubbers

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Range · Remarks · Print References · Works Cited
Dragon Lubber - Adult - Dracotettix monstrosus - female Dragon Lubber - Adult - Dracotettix monstrosus - male Dragon Lubber - Dracotettix monstrosus - female Dragon Lubber - 1st Instar - Dracotettix monstrosus Which species of Dracotettix is this? - Dracotettix monstrosus - female Grasshopper - Dracotettix monstrosus - female Grasshoppers mating - Dracotettix monstrosus - male - female Acrididae? - Dracotettix monstrosus - male
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Orthoptera (Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids)
Suborder Caelifera (Grasshoppers)
Family Romaleidae (Lubber Grasshoppers)
Genus Dracotettix (Dragon Lubbers)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Dracotettix Bruner, 1889
Numbers
Arnett (1) lists 3 species, as does Nearctica (2):
Dracotettix monstrosus Bruner, 1889
Dracotettix newboldi Hebard, 1931
Dracotettix plutonius Bruner, 1893
Range
Genus endemic to California (1).
Remarks
Author of genus - Lawrence A. Bruner (1856-1937) of Nebraska, see University of Nebraska, Lincoln.
Print References
Arnett, p. 169 (1)
Works Cited
1.American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
Ross H. Arnett. 2000. CRC Press.
2.Nearctica: Nomina Insecta Nearctica
Contributed by Eric R. Eaton on 9 October, 2007 - 3:35pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, David Ferguson
Last updated 4 November, 2018 - 11:11am

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