Oxytauchira Explained

Oxytauchira^[1] is a genus of grasshoppers (Acrididae) in the subfamily Oxyinae. The known (probably incomplete) distribution of species is: India, southern China, Indochina, Java and Sulawesi.^[2]

Species

The Orthoptera Species File^[2] lists:

1. Oxytauchira amaculata Mao, Ren & Ou, 2011
2. Oxytauchira aspinosa Ingrisch, 1989
3. Oxytauchira aurora (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893)
4. Oxytauchira bilobata Ingrisch, 1989
5. Oxytauchira brachyptera Zheng, 1981
6. Oxytauchira elegans Willemse, 1965
7. Oxytauchira flange Mao, Ren & Ou, 2011
8. Oxytauchira gracilis (Willemse, 1931) - type species (as Tauchira gracilis Willemse, C)
9. Oxytauchira gressitti (Tinkham, 1940)
10. Oxytauchira hui (Li, Lu, Jiang & Meng, 1995)
11. Oxytauchira jaintia Ingrisch, Willemse & Shishodia, 2004
12. Oxytauchira oxyelegans Otte, 1995
13. Oxytauchira paraurora Mao, Ren & Ou, 2011
14. Oxytauchira puerensis (Li, Xu & Zheng, 2014)
15. Oxytauchira pui (Liang & Zheng, 1986)
16. Oxytauchira rohilla Mobin & Usmani, 2019
17. Oxytauchira ruficornis (Huang, 1985)
18. Oxytauchira truncata Kumar & Chandra, 2018
19. Oxytauchira yaoshanensis (Li, 1987)
20. Oxytauchira yunnana (Zheng, 1981)

External links

• Images at Phuket Nature Tours (grasshoppers) of: Oxytauchira brachyptera by Doi Ang Khang and Oxytauchira bilobata at Khao Yai National Park

Notes and References

1. Ramme (1941[1940]) Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin 25: 117.
2. http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1114069 Orthoptera Species File