''Paprides'' is a genus of

short-horned 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. Grassh ...

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 two described species in ''Paprides'', found in New Zealand. Both species were moved to the genus ''Sigaus'' in 2023

Species

These species use to belong to the genus ''Paprides'': * '' Sigaus dugdali'' (Bigelow, 1967). A grasshopper species found in tussock above 400 m above sea level in the southern half of South Island New Zealand. * '' Sigaus nitidus'' (Hutton, 1898) An alpine grasshopper species restricted to the northern two thirds of South Island New Zealand. Females are larger than males. This species is sister to three species that were previously in the genus ''Brachaspis'' (''Sigaus collinus; S. nivalis'' and ''S. robustus'').

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* Acrididae {{acrididae-stub