Metaleptea
Sign in to saveMetaleptea is a genus of short-horned grasshoppers in the family Acrididae. There are at least two described species in Metaleptea, found in North, Central, and South America.
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Metaleptea is a genus of short-horned grasshoppers in the family Acrididae. There are at least two described species in Metaleptea, found in North, Central, and South America.
==Species== These species belong to the genus Metaleptea: Metaleptea adspersa (Blanchard, 1843) Metaleptea brevicornis (Johannson, 1763) (clip-wing grasshopper)
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