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Chrysochraon Group

Hopper - Chloealtis gracilis - female Chloealtis abdominalis - female Chloealtis conspersa - male Chloealtis conspersa - female Chloealtis conspersa - male Chloealtis conspersa - Sprinkled Grasshopper - Chloealtis conspersa - male Grasshopper - Chloealtis conspersa Chloealtis conspersa - female
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
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
equivalent to tribe Chrysochraontini
group Chrysochroantes Brunner von Wattenwyl 1893 (of tribe Acrididae). Based on genus Chrysochraon Fischer, 1853
tribe Chrysochraontini ?Otte, 1995
Identification
Moderately stout-bodied; face slanting; lateral faveolae (geometrically shaped pits obove and to the side of the antennae) not, or (in California/Oregon species) slightly visible from above; antennae slender but somewhat flattened in adults; wings shorter than end of hind femora (knees); tegmina broad in males; hind tibiae and/or lower side of hind femur usually orange or red (yellow in males of Chrysochraon).
Remarks
This group is apparently very closely related to the Gomphocerus Group.