''Epacromius'' is a genus of
Palaearctic
The Palearctic or Palaearctic is a biogeographic realm of the Earth, the largest of eight. Confined almost entirely to the Eastern Hemisphere, it stretches across Europe and Asia, north of the foothills of the Himalayas, and North Africa.
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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 ...
, typical of the
tribe
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Epacromiini, erected by
Boris Uvarov
Sir Boris Petrovitch Uvarov (3 November 1886 – 18 March 1970) was a Russian-British entomologist best known for his work on the biology and ecology of locusts. He has been called the father of acridology.
Biography
Boris Petrovitch Uvarov wa ...
in 1942. The recorded distribution of species is France and Spain in western Europe through temperate Asia to Japan (but locality records may be incomplete).
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Species
The ''Orthoptera Species File''[ Orthoptera Species File: genus ''Epacromius'' Uvarov, 1942 (Version 5.0/5.0: retrieved 28 May 2023)]
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# '' Epacromius coerulipes'' (Ivanov, 1888)
# '' Epacromius fallax'' Wang, 2007
# '' Epacromius japonicus'' (Shiraki, 1910)
# '' Epacromius pulverulentus'' (Fischer von Waldheim, 1846)
# '' Epacromius tergestinus'' (Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1825) - type species (as ''Gryllus tergestinus'' Megerle von Mühlfeld = ''E. tergestinus tergestinus'', one of 3 subspecies: by subsequent designation[Johnston HB (1956) ''Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers'' 833 pp.])
References
External links
Images and information at Orthoptera.ch
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Oedipodinae
Orthoptera of Asia
Orthoptera of Europe
Acrididae genera