''Schistocerca ceratiola'', the rosemary grasshopper, is a species of bird 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 endemic to the
Florida scrub
Florida scrub is a forest ecoregion found throughout Florida in the United States. It is found on coastal and inland sand ridges and is characterized by an evergreen Xerophyte, xeromorphic plant community dominated by shrubs and dwarf oaks. Becau ...
in Florida.
References
* Capinera J.L, Scott R.D., Walker T.J. (2004). ''Field Guide to Grasshoppers, Katydids, and Crickets of the United States''. Cornell University Press.
* Otte, Daniel (1995). "Grasshoppers
cridomorphaD". ''Orthoptera Species File 5'', 630.
Further reading
*
Acrididae
Insects described in 1928
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