''Mesasippus'' is a genus of
grasshopper
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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tribe
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Gomphocerini
Gomphocerini is a tribe of grasshoppers of the family Acrididae.
Genera
The ''Orthoptera Species File'' lists the following:
# '' Aeropedellus'' Hebard, 1935
# '' Bruneria'' McNeill, 1897 , erected by Yu S, Tarbinsky in 1931.
[Tarbinsky YS (1931) ''Bull. Leningrad Inst. Contr. Farm and Forest Pests'' 1: 129.] Species have been recorded from eastern Europe through to central China.
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Species
The ''Orthoptera Species File''[ Orthoptera Species File: genus ''Mesasippus'' Tarbinsky, 1931 (retrieved 30 December 2022)]
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# '' Mesasippus ammophilus'' Bey-Bienko, 1948
# '' Mesasippus arenosus'' (Bey-Bienko, 1930) (2 subspecies)
# '' Mesasippus barsukiensis'' Mistshenko, 1951
# '' Mesasippus divergens'' (Bey-Bienko, 1930)
# '' Mesasippus fuscovittatus'' (Tarbinsky, 1927)
# '' Mesasippus geophilus'' (Bey-Bienko, 1930)
# '' Mesasippus kozhevnikovi'' (Tarbinsky, 1925) - type species (as ''Chorthippus
''Chorthippus'' is a large genus of Gomphocerini, gomphocerine grasshoppers with around 230 described species mostly found in the Palaearctic realm. It was erected by Franz Xaver Fieber, Franz Fieber in 1852.
The genus has been subdivided in ...
kozhevnikovi'' Tarbinsky = ''M. kozhevnikovi kozhevnikovi'', the nominate subspecies out of 3)
# '' Mesasippus nudus'' (Umnov, 1931)
# '' Mesasippus scitus'' Mistshenko, 1951
# '' Mesasippus tarbagataicus'' Sergeev & Bugrov, 1988
References
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Orthoptera genera
Orthoptera of Asia
Orthoptera of Europe
Gomphocerinae