Chromacris
Sign in to saveChromacris is a genus of lubber grasshoppers in the family Romaleidae. The nine described species in Chromacris are found in Mexico, Central America, or South America. They often have bright aposematic colors and they are presumed to be toxic.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 87
- Family
- Romaleidae
- Collections
- NRM, UPS, TAMU
- Recorded in
- Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Costa Rica
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- Parent taxon
- Romaleidae
- Image
- Chromacris sp 1.jpg
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- Chromacris
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- Chromacris
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- genus
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Chromacris is a genus of lubber grasshoppers in the family Romaleidae. The nine described species in Chromacris are found in Mexico, Central America, or South America. They often have bright aposematic colors and they are presumed to be toxic.
The genus was first described in 1870 by Francis Walker.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chromacris” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.