Shirakiacris Explained

Shirakiacris^[1] is an Asian genus of grasshoppers in the subfamily Eyprepocnemidinae and the tribe Eyprepocnemidini. Its recorded distribution includes: southern and eastern China, Korea, Japan and Vietnam.

Species

The Orthoptera Species File^[2] lists:

• Shirakiacris brachyptera Zheng, 1983
• Shirakiacris shirakii (Bolívar, 1914) - type species (as "Euprepocnemis shirakii")
• Shirakiacris tenuistris Huang, 1988
• Shirakiacris yukweiensis (Chang, 1937)

References

1. Dirsh (1958[1957]) Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. 12 10: 861.
2. http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1113899 Orthoptera Species File (retrieved 22 January 2019)

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