''Trachyrhachys'' is a genus of
band-winged grasshopper
Bandwings, or band-winged grasshoppers, are the subfamily Oedipodinae of grasshoppers classified under the family Acrididae. They have a worldwide distribution and were originally elevated to full family status as the Oedipodidae. Many species p ...
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 four described
species
A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...
in ''Trachyrhachys''.
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Species
These four species belong to the genus ''Trachyrhachys'':
* '' Trachyrhachys aspera'' Scudder, 1876 (finned grasshopper)
* '' Trachyrhachys coronata'' Scudder, 1876 (crowned grasshopper)
* '' Trachyrhachys funeralis'' Strohecker, 1945
* '' Trachyrhachys kiowa'' (Thomas, 1872) (Kiowa grasshopper)
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Oedipodinae
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Acrididae genera
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