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Genus Acrolophitus - Point-head Grasshoppers

Green fool grasshopper - Acrolophitus hirtipes - female

Cute Grasshopper - Acrolophitus maculipennis - male

nymph in Portal AZ - Acrolophitus maculipennis

Green Fool Grasshopper - Acrolophitus hirtipes

Grasshopper near Amarillo, TX - Acrolophitus hirtipes

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 (Acrolophitus Group)

Genus Acrolophitus (Point-head Grasshoppers)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Acrolophitus Thomas, 1871. Type species: Gryllus hirtipes Say

Pedioscirtetes Thomas, 1873. Type species: Pedioscirtetes nevadensis Thomas

Acrocara Scudder, 1890. Type species: Acrocara maculipenne Scudder

Numbers

Four species

Identification

See under Acrolophitus Group

Contributed by Tom Bentley on 5 October, 2007 - 3:19pm
Additional contributions by David Ferguson
Last updated 23 December, 2010 - 5:05am

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