''Epistaurus''Bolívar I (1889) ''J. Sci. Math. Phys. Nat., Lisboa (Ser. 2)'' 1: 164. 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.
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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 ...
, subfamily
Coptacrinae
The Coptacrinae are a subfamily of Acrididae (originally described by Brunner von Wattenwyl under the synonym: Coptacrae) in the Orthoptera: Caelifera. Species can be found in Africa and Asia.
Genera
The Orthoptera Species File lists the foll ...
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Species can be found in West and Central Africa, the Indian subcontinent, Indo-China and southern China.