Acanthacris

Acanthacris is a genus of African grasshoppers in the subfamily Cyrtacanthacridinae.

Acanthacris
A. ruficornis (garden locust) in Ghana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Orthoptera
Suborder:	Caelifera
Superfamily:	Acridoidea
Family:	Acrididae
Subfamily:	Cyrtacanthacridinae
Genus:	Acanthacris Uvarov, 1924

A. ruficornis nymph. Lateral aspect, sitting on glass window. The brown colour only develops at the final ecdysis.

A. ruficornis nymph. Ventral aspect, sitting on glass window.

Species

The following species are included:[1]

• Acanthacris aithioptera
• Acanthacris deckeni
• Acanthacris elgonensis
• Acanthacris ruficornis

The genus Acanthacris belongs to subfamily Cyrtacanthacridinae (W.F. Kirby, 1902),[2] of locusts (Acrididae), which belongs to the same order (Orthoptera) as crickets (Gryllidae), katydids (Tettigoniidae), and other grasshoppers. A. ruficornis is distributed throughout Africa and parts of the Arabian Peninsula, as well as in southern Spain.[3]

References

1. Mungai, M(ichael), The African grasshopper genus Acanthacris (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Cyrtacanthacridinae), Journal of Natural History, Volume 21, Number 4, July–August 1987; pp. 807-823 (17)
2. Brands, S.J. (comp.), 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands; accessdate Feb. 6, 2012 Archived 2009-08-24 at the Wayback Machine,
3. Hochkirch, A., Presa, J.J., Barranco Vega, P., García, M., Correas, J., Prunier, F., Odé, B., Ferreira, S. & Lemos, P. 2016. Acanthacris ruficornis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T15431046A70291235. Downloaded on 15 October 2019.