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Epacromius

Epacromius is a genus of Palaearctic grasshoppers, typical of the tribe Epacromiini, erected by Boris Uvarov in 1942. The recorded distribution of species is France and Spain in western Europe through temperate Asia to Japan.

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Epacromius
Epacromius tergestinus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Caelifera
Family: Acrididae
Subfamily: Oedipodinae
Tribe: Epacromiini
Genus: Epacromius
Uvarov, 1942
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Epacromius is a genus of Palaearctic grasshoppers, typical of the tribe Epacromiini, erected by Boris Uvarov in 1942.1 The recorded distribution of species is France and Spain in western Europe through temperate Asia to Japan (but locality records may be incomplete).2

Species

The Orthoptera Species File2 lists:

  1. Epacromius coerulipes (Ivanov, 1888)
  2. Epacromius fallax Wang, 2007
  3. Epacromius japonicus (Shiraki, 1910)
  4. Epacromius pulverulentus (Fischer von Waldheim, 1846)
  5. Epacromius tergestinus (Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1825) - type species (as Gryllus tergestinus Megerle von Mühlfeld = E. tergestinus tergestinus, one of 3 subspecies: by subsequent designation3)
References

References

  1. Uvarov BP (1942) New and less known southern Palaearctic Orthoptera. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 67(4): 337, 338 [1941].
  2. Orthoptera Species File: genus Epacromius Uvarov, 1942 (Version 5.0/5.0: retrieved 28 May 2023)
  3. Johnston HB (1956) Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers 833 pp.
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