''Macrotona securiformis'', the Inland Macrotona, is a species of
short-horned grasshopper
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 be ...
in the family
Acrididae,
first described by in 1921 by
Bror Yngve Sjöstedt
Bror Yngve Sjöstedt (August 3, 1866, Hjo – 1948) was a Swedish naturalist.
Sjöstedt gained his degree and his doctorate in 1896 at the University of Uppsala
Uppsala University ( sv, Uppsala universitet) is a public research universit ...
, as ''Eumacrotona securiformis''.
It is found in
Australia.
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Catantopinae
Taxa named by Bror Yngve Sjöstedt
Insects described in 1921
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