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Lactista
Sign in to saveLactista is a genus of band-winged grasshoppers in the family Acrididae. There are about 10 described species in Lactista.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 1,972
- With media
- 96
- Family
- Acrididae
- Collections
- MHNCA
- Recorded in
- Mexico, United States, Guatemala, Honduras
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- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Oedipodinae
- Image
- Lactista stramineus.jpg
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Lactista is a genus of band-winged grasshoppers in the family Acrididae. There are about 10 described species in Lactista.
==Species== These 10 species belong to the genus Lactista: Lactista azteca (Saussure, 1861) (Aztec grasshopper) Lactista elota Otte, 1984 Lactista eustatia Bland, 2002 Lactista gibbosus Saussure, 1884 (trailside grasshopper) Lactista humilis Hebard, 1932 Lactista inermus Rehn, 1900 Lactista micrus (Hebard, 1932) Lactista pellepidus Saussure, 1884 Lactista punctatus (Stål, 1873) Lactista stramineus (Erichson, 1848)
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