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Angaracris

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Angaracris
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Caelifera
Family: Acrididae
Subfamily: Oedipodinae
Tribe: Bryodemini
Genus: Angaracris
Bey-Bienko, 1930
Species:
A. barabensis
Binomial name
Angaracris barabensis
(Pallas, 1773)

Angaracris barabensis is a species of bandwing grasshopper which inhabits the steppes of central and northeast Asia.

Classification

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The genus Angaracris at one point contained as many as nine different species,[1] but a 2017 paper published in Zootaxa declared them all to be synonyms of the type species, Angaracris barbarensis, making the genus monotypic.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Childebaev, M K; Temreshev, I I; and Kolov, S V. 2013. "To the synonymy of Angaracris barabensis (Pallas, 1773) (Orthoptera, Acrididae) with clarifying the peculiarities of its feeding and distribution" published in Far Eastern Entomologist no. 263. urn:urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:D6D9140E-016B-45F4-B8B3-8E800A308855.
  2. ^ Storozhenko, S; Benediktov, A; and Huang, J. 2017. "Revision of the genus Angaracris Bey-Bienko, 1930 (Orthoptera: Acrididae, Oedipodinae) with notes on the tribe Bryodemini" published in Zootaxa vol. 4244 no. 3. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4244.3.9