''Heteropternis'' is a genus of

grasshoppers 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. Grasshop ...

in the family

Acrididae The AcrididaeMacLeay WS (1821) ''Horae Entomologicae or Essays on the Annulose Animals'' 2 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 bec ...

, subfamily Oedipodinae, and tribe

Epacromiini Bandwings, or band-winged grasshoppers, are the subfamily Oedipodinae of grasshoppers classified under the family Acrididae. They have a worldwide distribution and were originally elevated to full family status as the Oedipodidae. Many species p ...

. The recorded distribution of species in ''Heteropternis'' is from Africa and India through to Japan, Malesia, and Papua New Guinea.

Species

The

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lists: *'' Heteropternis cheesmanae'' Uvarov, 1935 *'' Heteropternis coerulea'' Schulthess Schindler, 1899 *'' Heteropternis couloniana'' Saussure, 1884 *'' Heteropternis descampsi'' Roy, 1969 *'' Heteropternis guineensis'' Blanchard, 1853 *'' Heteropternis guttifera'' Kirby, 1902 *'' Heteropternis latisterna'' Wang & Xia, 1992 *'' Heteropternis micronus'' Huang, 1981 *'' Heteropternis minuta'' Uvarov, 1934 *'' Heteropternis motuoensis'' Yin, 1984 *'' Heteropternis obscurella'' Blanchard, 1853 *'' Heteropternis pudica'' Serville, 1838 *'' Heteropternis pugnax'' Bolívar, 1912 *'' Heteropternis qinghaiensis'' Wang & Zheng, 1992 *'' Heteropternis respondens'' Walker, 1859 *'' Heteropternis robusta'' Bey-Bienko, 1951 *'' Heteropternis royi'' Mestre, 1988 *'' Heteropternis rufipes'' Shiraki, 1910 *'' Heteropternis sarimahii'' Mahmood, Samira, Salmah & Idris, 2008 *'' Heteropternis thoracica'' Walker, 1870

References

Orthoptera Species File (Version 5.0/5.0: retrieved 24 November 2018)
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