''Hippopedon'' is a genus of

band-winged grasshopper 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 ...

s 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 at least three described species in ''Hippopedon''.

Species

These three species belong to the genus ''Hippopedon'': * '' Hippopedon capito'' (Stål, 1873) (Apache grasshopper) * '' Hippopedon gracilipes'' (Caudell, 1905) (Rehn's slender grasshopper) * '' Hippopedon saltator'' Saussure, 1861

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