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Genus Chloealtis

Grasshopper - Chloealtis conspersa - female Slant-faced grasshopper - Chloealtis conspersa - male Chloealtis abdominalis - female Graceful Slant-face Grasshopper - Chloealtis gracilis - male Chloealtis conspersa? - Chloealtis conspersa - female Chloealtis conspersa grasshopper, another shortwing - Chloealtis abdominalis - female Chloealtis conspersa - male
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Orthoptera (Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids)
Suborder Caelifera (Grasshoppers)
Family Acrididae (Short-horned Grasshoppers)
Subfamily Gomphocerinae (Slant-faced Grasshoppers)
No Taxon (Chrysochraon Group)
Genus Chloealtis
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Locusta (Chloealtis) T.W. Harris, 1841. Type species: Locusta conspersa T.W. Harris
Chloealtis (T.W. Harris) McNeill, 1897
Napaia McNeill, 1897. Type species: Napaia gracilis McNeill
Oeonomus S.H. Scudder, 1899. Type species: Oeonomus altus S.H. Scudder [= Chloealtis gracilis (McNeill)]
Neopodismopsis Bey-Bienko, 1932. Type species: Chrysochraon abdominalis C. Thomas
Numbers
Five species recognized in North America. Very similar to and apparently closely related to Chrysochraon and Euchorthippus of Eurasia.
Range
United States and Canada