Tasmaniacris Explained

Tasmaniacris is a genus of short-horned grasshoppers in the family Acrididae. There is one described species in Tasmaniacris, T. tasmaniensis, found in Tasmania. This grasshopper is flightless (micropterous).[1] T. tasmaniensis is sister to the Tasmanian Russalpia species.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Key . K. H. L. . 1991 . On four endemic genera of Tasmanian Acrididae (Orthoptera) . Invertebrate Systematics . en . 5 . 2 . 241–288 . 10.1071/it9910241 . 1447-2600.
  2. Koot . Emily M. . Morgan-Richards . Mary . Trewick . Steven A. . 2020 . An alpine grasshopper radiation older than the mountains, on Kā Tiritiri o te Moana (Southern Alps) of Aotearoa (New Zealand) . Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution . 147 . 106783 . 10.1016/j.ympev.2020.106783 . 1055-7903.

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