Ocneridia Explained

Ocneridia is a genus of African and European grasshoppers belonging to the family Pamphagidae, erected by Ignacio Bolívar in 1912.^[1] Belonging to the tribe Pamphagini, species can be found in northern Africa and some Mediterranean islands including Sicily.

Species

The Orthoptera Species File^[2] lists:

1. Ocneridia microptera (Brisout de Barneville, 1850)
2. Ocneridia nigropunctata (Lucas, 1847) - type species (as Porthetis canonicus Fischer)
3. Ocneridia volxemii (Bolívar, 1878)

External links

• Images of the "Dotted Stone Grasshopper" O. nigropunctata in Grasshoppers of Europe
• Images at iNaturalist

Notes and References

1. Bolívar I (1912) Trab. Mus. Cienc. nat., Madrid (Ser. zool.) 6: 11, 26.
2. http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1116822 Orthoptera Species File: genus Ocneridia Bolívar, 1912 (retrieved 3 January 2023)