Tauchira

For the ancient Greek city Tauchira in Cyrenaica, see Tocra.

Tauchira
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Caelifera
Family: Acrididae
Tribe: Tauchirini
Genus: Tauchira
Stål, 1878
Synonyms

Bua Bolívar, 1918
Paratraulia Willemse, 1925
Servillenia Ramme, 1941
Sinacris Tinkham, 1940

Tauchira[1] is a genus of grasshoppers (Acrididae) in the subfamily Catantopinae and tribe Tauchirini. Species can be found in South-East Asia.[2]

Species

The Orthoptera Species File[2] lists the following:

  1. Tauchira abbreviata Serville, 1838
  2. Tauchira buae Bolívar, 1898
  3. Tauchira damingshana Zheng, 1984
  4. Tauchira grandiceps Willemse, 1928
  5. Tauchira hunanensis Fu & Zheng, 1999
  6. Tauchira karnyi Willemse, 1925
  7. Tauchira longipennis Liang, 1989
  8. Tauchira obliqueannulata Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1898
  9. Tauchira oreophilus Tinkham, 1940
  10. Tauchira polychroa (Stål, 18750 - type species (as Oxya polychroa Stål)
  11. Tauchira rufotibialis Willemse, 1925
  12. Tauchira vietnamensis Storozhenko, 1992

References

  1. ^ Stål (1878) Bihang Kungl. Svenska Vet. Akad. Handl. 5(4):48
  2. ^ a b Orthoptera Species File (retrieved 24 November 2021)
  • Images at Phuket Nature Tours (grasshoppers) of Tauchira polychroa.
  • Media related to Catantopinae at Wikimedia Commons
  • Data related to Tauchira at Wikispecies
  • Roskov Y.; Kunze T.; Orrell T.; Abucay L.; Paglinawan L.; Culham A.; Bailly N.; Kirk P.; Bourgoin T.; Baillargeon G.; Decock W.; De Wever A. (2011). Didžiulis V. (ed.). "Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist". Species 2000: Reading, UK. Retrieved 24 September 2012.