Genus Metaleptea

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Works Cited

Clipwing Grasshopper - Metaleptea brevicornis - female

Clipped-wing Grasshopper - Metaleptea brevicornis - male

Clipwing Grasshopper - Metaleptea brevicornis - male

Clipwing Grasshopper - Metaleptea brevicornis

grass hopper nymph - Metaleptea brevicornis - male

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Orthoptera (Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids)

Suborder Caelifera (Grasshoppers)

Family Acrididae (Short-horned Grasshoppers)

Subfamily Acridinae (Silent Slantfaced Grasshoppers)

Tribe Hyalopterygini

Genus Metaleptea

Explanation of Names

Author of genus is Giglio-Tos, 1897. Likely from Greek meta, after plus Leptea, another genus of grasshoppers. That genus name from Greek, leptos, meaning thin, small? (Based on Internet searches.)

Numbers

Nearctica.com and Arnett, p. 174 (1), list 1 species, M. brevicornis.

Works Cited

1.	American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico By Ross H. Arnett

Contributed by Cotinis on 29 September, 2004 - 7:28am
Last updated 4 March, 2007 - 6:37pm

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