Acanthoxia

Acanthoxia
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Orthoptera
Suborder:	Caelifera
Family:	Acrididae
Subfamily:	Hemiacridinae
Genus:	Acanthoxia Bolívar, 1906
Synonyms
Pretoriana Uvarov, 1922

Acanthoxia is a genus of African grasshoppers in the family Acrididae.[1]

Pretoriana is a synonym. The tachinid fly genus invalidly named thus by Curran in 1938 is now Gautengicesa. The moth genus invalidly named thus by Traugott-Olsen in 1995 is now considered a junior synonym of Perittia.

Species

• Acanthoxia aculeus Grunshaw, 1996
• Acanthoxia brevipenne Grunshaw, 1996
• Acanthoxia gladiator Westwood, 1841
• Acanthoxia lanceolata Bolívar, 1890
• Acanthoxia natalensis Krauss, 1877
• Acanthoxia pretoriae Miller, 1932

References

1. "genus Acanthoxia Bolívar, 1906". orthoptera.speciesfile.org. Retrieved 2020-03-03.