''Chortoicetes'' is a genus of
grasshoppers
Grasshoppers are a group of insects belonging to the suborder Caelifera. They are amongst what are possibly the most ancient living groups of chewing herbivorous insects, dating back to the early Triassic around 250 million years ago.
Grassh ...
in the subfamily
Oedipodinae and is notable for including the
Australian plague locust
The Australian plague locust (''Chortoicetes terminifera'') is a species of locust in the family Acrididae native to Australia, where it is a significant agricultural pest.
Adult Australian plague locusts range in size from 20 to 45 mm in l ...
.
Species
The ''Orthoptera Species File''
[Orthoptera Species File](_blank)
genus ''Chortoicetes'' Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 (Version 5.0/5.0, retrieved 18 September 2021) 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
''Gymnobothrus''Bolívar I (1889) ''J. Sci. Math. Phys. Nat., Lisboa'' (Ser. 2) 1(2): 100. is the type genus of grasshoppers in the tribe
The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The ...
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
External links
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''Chortoicetes'' at insectoid.info
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Acrididae genera
Oedipodinae
Taxa named by Carl Brunner von Wattenwyl