Chortoicetes is a genus of grasshoppers in the subfamily Oedipodinae and is notable for including the Australian plague locust.
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| Chortoicetes terminifera, the Australian plague locust | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Orthoptera |
| Suborder: | Caelifera |
| Family: | Acrididae |
| Subfamily: | Oedipodinae |
| Genus: | Chortoicetes Brunner v. Wattenwyl, 1893[1] |
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Species edit
The Orthoptera Species File[2] 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
References edit
- ^ Brunner v. Wattenwyl 1893, Ann. Mus. Stor. nat. Genova, (2) 13, 130 [n.n.]; Brancsik 1895, Jahresh. Ver. Trencs. Com., 17-18, 249.
- ^ a b Orthoptera Species File genus Chortoicetes Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 (Version 5.0/5.0, retrieved 18 September 2021)
External links edit
Data related to Chortoicetes at Wikispecies
Media related to Chortoicetes at Wikimedia Commons- Chortoicetes at insectoid.info
