''Metaleptea adspersa'' is a species of
short-horned grasshopper 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 ...
. It is found in Central and South America.
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Acridinae
Orthoptera of South America
Insects described in 1834
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