Spharagemon Cristatum
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''Spharagemon'' is a genus of band-winged grasshoppers in the family
Acrididae Acrididae are the predominant family of grasshoppers, comprising some 10,000 of the 11,000 species of the entire suborder Caelifera. The Acrididae are best known because all locusts (swarming grasshoppers) are of the Acrididae. The subfamily Oedi ...
. There are about 9 described species in ''Spharagemon''.


Species

* '' Spharagemon bolli'' Scudder, 1875 (Boll's grasshopper) * '' Spharagemon bunites'' Otte, 1984 * '' Spharagemon campestris'' (McNeill, 1901) (campestral grasshopper) * ''
Spharagemon collare ''Spharagemon collare'', the mottled sand grasshopper, is found in sandy-soiled, grassy areas of northern United States and southern Canada. They are known to be a minor pest of wheat crops; however, populations are rarely large enough to cause a ...
'' (Scudder, 1872) (mottled sand grasshopper) * '' Spharagemon crepitans'' (Saussure, 1884) (crepitating grasshopper) * '' Spharagemon cristatum'' Scudder, 1875 (ridgeback grasshopper) * '' Spharagemon equale'' (Say, 1825) (Say's grasshopper) * '' Spharagemon marmorata'' (Harris, 1841) * '' Spharagemon saxatile'' Morse, 1894 (ledge grasshopper)


References


Further reading

* * Oedipodinae Acrididae genera {{oedipodinae-stub