''Spathosternum prasiniferum'' 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. It is found in

Indomalaya The Indomalayan realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms. It extends across most of South and Southeast Asia and into the southern parts of East Asia. Also called the Oriental realm by biogeographers, Indomalaya spreads all over the In ...

Subspecies

These subspecies belong to the species ''Spathosternum prasiniferum'': * ''Spathosternum prasiniferum prasiniferum'' (Walker, 1871) * ''Spathosternum prasiniferum sinense'' Uvarov, 1931 * ''Spathosternum prasiniferum xizangensis'' Yin, 1982 * ''Spathosternum prasiniferum yunnanense'' Wei & Zheng, 2005

Description

* Colour: Generally greenish in fresh material; a broad characteristic black band running from behind eyes to pronotum along lateral carinae; tegmina light brown with longitudinal central pale marking; wings hyaline, clouded towards apex; hind femur greenish or rufotestaceous; hind tibia green. * Head: Convex; fastigium rounded with lateral carinulae slightly raised, more pronounced in males; foveolae obsolete; weak median carina extending over vertex; frontal ridge narrow, parallel sided, sulcated throughout; antenna 21 segmented, shorter than head and pronotum taken together. * Mesosoma: Pronotum flat, tricarinate, three sulci present, median carina traversed only by hind sulci; prozona almost equal to metazona; posterior margin of pronotum angulated; prosternal process antero-posteriorly compressed, bilobed, inclined backwards, base narrower; mesosternal lobes separate; metasternal lobes contiguous; hind tibia long, hardly dilated, 10-11 spines apart from apical one. * Metasoma: Cerci short, cylindrical; supra-anal plate blunt with longitudinal groove.

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* Acrididae {{acrididae-stub