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''Chapacris'' is a
monotypic In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon. A monotypic species is one that does not include subspecies or smaller, infraspecific taxa. In the case of genera, the term "unisp ...
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 ...
containing only the species ''Chapacris tonkinensis''. It is 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 ...
and subfamily
Catantopinae The subfamily Catantopinae is a group of insects classified under family (biology), family Acrididae. Genera such as ''Macrotona'' may sometimes called "spur-throated grasshoppers", but that name is also used for grasshoppers from other subfamili ...
. This species can be found in Vietnam.


References

Tinkham (1940) Taxonomic and biological studies on the Crytacanthacrinae of South China. ''Lingnan Sci. J., Canton'' 19(3): 269-382, 7 pls. ''Chapacris''
Orthoptera Species File. Eades DC, Otte D, Cigliano MM, Braun H (Version 5.0: retrieved 24 November 2018)
{{Taxonbar, from=Q14625198, from2=Q10448356 Acrididae genera Orthoptera of Indo-China Monotypic Orthoptera genera Insects described in 1940