''Euryphymus'' is the
type genus of
grasshopper
Grasshoppers are a group of insects belonging to the suborder Caelifera. They are among what is possibly the most ancient living group of chewing herbivorous insects, dating back to the early Triassic around 250 million years ago.
Grasshopp ...
s in the subfamily
Euryphyminae
The Euryphyminae are a subfamily of grasshoppers in the family Acrididae, based on the type genus ''Euryphymus'' and may be called "agile grasshoppers"; it was erected by Vitaly Michailovitsh Dirsh in 1956. Species have been recorded from parts ...
, erected by
Carl Stål in 1873 as a subgenus of ''"
Calliptenus" (Euryphymus)''. Species have been recorded from southern Africa and Madagascar (although the known distribution may be incomplete).
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Species
A key to most species was given by Uvarov. The ''Orthoptera Species File'' includes:[Orthoptera Species File]
(OSF): genus ''Euryphymus'' Stål, 1873 (Version 5.0/5.0; retrieved 3 September 2022)
# '' Euryphymus eremobioides'' Bolívar, 1889
# '' Euryphymus exemptus'' (Walker, 1870)
# '' Euryphymus haematopus'' (Linnaeus, 1758) - type species (as ''Gryllus haematopus'' Linnaeus, by subsequent designation[Kirby WF (1910) ''A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae)'' 3(2): 674 pp.])
# '' Euryphymus kalahariensis'' Barker, 1985
# '' Euryphymus tuberculatus'' Martínez y Fernández-Castillo, 1898
# '' Euryphymus xanthocnemis'' Brancsik, 1897
References
External links
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Caelifera genera
Acrididae
Orthoptera of Africa