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Genus Psoloessa

Texas Spotted Range Grasshopper - Psoloessa texana - male Texas Spotted Range Grasshopper - Psoloessa texana - female Texas Spotted Range Grasshopper - Psoloessa texana - female small grasshopper - Psoloessa texana - female Psoloessa delicatula, ovipositing - Psoloessa delicatula - female Psoloessa delicatula - female Psoloessa texana Melanoplinae subfamily? - Psoloessa - 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 (Aulocara Group)
Genus Psoloessa
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Psoloessa Scudder, 1875. Type species: Psoloessa maculipennis S.H. Scudder, 1875 (= Psoloessa texana S.H. Scudder) [subsequent designation by J.A.G. Rehn, 1906]
Stirapleura Scudder, 1876. Type species: Stirapleura decussata S.H. Scudder, 1876 (= Psoloessa delicatula (Scudder) Hebard )