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Chortoicetes is a genus of grasshoppers in the subfamily Oedipodinae and is notable for including the Australian plague locust.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassInsecta
  4. OrderOrthoptera
  5. FamilyAcrididae

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
16
Family
Acrididae
Collections
MISSA, NRM
Recorded in
Australia, Madagascar

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Acrididae
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Chortoicetes terminifera adult.jpg
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Commons category
Chortoicetes
taxon name
Chortoicetes
taxon rank
genus
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Chortoicetes is a genus of grasshoppers in the subfamily Oedipodinae and is notable for including the Australian plague locust.

==Species== The Orthoptera Species File lists: Chortoicetes sumbaensis (Willemse, 1953) - (Sunda archipelago) Chortoicetes terminifera (Walker, 1870) - type species (as Chortoicetes yorketownensis Brancsik)

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