Dictyophorus
| Dictyophorus | |
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| Koppie foam grasshopper, Dictyophorus spumans, South Africa | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Orthoptera |
| Suborder: | Caelifera |
| Family: | Pyrgomorphidae |
| Tribe: | |
| Genus: | Dictyophorus Thunberg, 1815 |
| Type species | |
| Gryllus spumans Thunberg, 1787
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Dictyophorus is a genus of , grasshoppers in the family Pyrgomorphidae, native to southern Africa.[1] There are four described species in Dictyophorus.[1] The genus was named in 1815.[2]
Species[]
These four species belong to the genus Dictyophorus:[1]
- (Carl, 1916)
- Dictyophorus griseus (Reiche & Fairmaire, 1849)
- (Bolívar, 1904)
- Dictyophorus spumans (Thunberg, 1787) – koppie foam grasshopper
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Otte, Daniel; Cigliano, Maria Marta; Braun, Holger; Eades, David C. (2019). "genus Dictyophorus Thunberg, 1815". Orthoptera species file online, Version 5.0. Retrieved 2019-10-16.
- ^ Thunberg (1815). Mémoires de l'Académie impériale des sciences de St.-Pétersbourg: Ve série (in French). Académie impériale des sciences. p. 211-301.
Categories:
- Pyrgomorphidae
- Caelifera genera
- Caelifera stubs