Chortoicetes Explained
Chortoicetes is a genus of grasshoppers in the subfamily Oedipodinae and is notable for including the Australian plague locust.
Species
The Orthoptera Species File[1] lists:
- Chortoicetes sumbaensis (Willemse, 1953) - (Sunda archipelago)
- Chortoicetes terminifera (Walker, 1870) - type species (as Chortoicetes yorketownensis Brancsik)
A number of species using this genus name, have been brought to synonymy:
- Chortoicetes acutangulus, synonym of Heteropternis thoracica
- Chortoicetes affinis, synonym of Chortoicetes terminifera
- Chortoicetes albomarginatus, synonym of Gymnobothrus lineaalba
- Chortoicetes concolor, synonym of Austroicetes frater
- Chortoicetes corallipes, synonym of Austroicetes vulgaris
- Chortoicetes elegans, synonym of Chortoicetes terminifera
- Chortoicetes fallax, synonym of Gymnobothrus cruciatus
- Chortoicetes finitima, synonym of Austroicetes frater
- Chortoicetes frater, synonym of Austroicetes frater
- Chortoicetes interruptus, synonym of Oedaleus interruptus
- Chortoicetes jungi, synonym of Austroicetes cruciata
- Chortoicetes marginalis, synonym of Pycnostictus seriatus
- Chortoicetes montana, synonym of Austroicetes frater
- Chortoicetes pusillulus, synonym of Austroicetes pusilla
- Chortoicetes romeri, synonym of Gymnobothrus roemeri
- Chortoicetes subparallelus, synonym of Gymnobothrus lineaalba
- Chortoicetes tonnoiri, synonym of Austroicetes frater
- Chortoicetes tricolor, synonym of Austroicetes tricolor
- Chortoicetes vicina, synonym of Austroicetes pusilla
- Chortoicetes vittata, synonym of Austroicetes frater
- Chortoicetes vulgaris, synonym of Austroicetes vulgaris
- Chortoicetes yorketownensis, synonym of Chortoicetes terminifera
External links
Notes and References
- http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1104533 Orthoptera Species File
