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Rhammatocerus
Sign in to saveRhammatocerus is a genus of grasshoppers in the subfamily Gomphocerinae and the tribe Scyllinini. There are about 16 described species in Rhammatocerus, including R. schistocercoides, the "Mato Grosso locust".
Species
Traveller Grasshopper
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderOrthoptera
- FamilyAcrididae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 502
- With media
- 2
- Family
- Acrididae
- Collections
- IIZD-UASLP, IBUNAM, UPRM, RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE
- Recorded in
- Mexico, Puerto Rico, Guatemala, Brazil
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- Parent taxon
- Gomphocerinae
- Image
- Rhammatocerus pictus.jpg
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Rhammatocerus is a genus of grasshoppers in the subfamily Gomphocerinae and the tribe Scyllinini. There are about 16 described species in Rhammatocerus, including R. schistocercoides, the "Mato Grosso locust".
==Species== These 16 species belong to the genus Rhammatocerus: Rhammatocerus alticola (Hebard, 1923) Rhammatocerus brasiliensis (Bruner, 1904) Rhammatocerus brunneri (Giglio-Tos, 1895) Rhammatocerus cyanipes (Fabricius, 1775) Rhammatocerus guerrai Assis-Pujol, 1997 Rhammatocerus palustris Carbonell, 1988 Rhammatocerus peragrans (Stål, 1861) Rhammatocerus pictus (Bruner, 1900) Rhammatocerus pratensis (Bruner, 1904) Rhammatocerus pseudocyanipes Assis-Pujol, 1997 Rhammatocerus salinus (Bruner, 1904) Rhammatocerus schistocercoides (Rehn, 1906) Rhammatocerus suffusus (Rehn, 1906) Rhammatocerus varipes (Bruner, 1905) Rhammatocerus viatorius (Saussure, 1861) (traveller grasshopper) Rhammatocerus victori Alves Dos Santos & Assis-Pujol, 2003
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