Tasmaniacris is a genus of short-horned grasshoppers in the family Acrididae. There is one described species in Tasmaniacris, T. tasmaniensis, found in Tasmania.[1][2] This grasshopper is flightless (micropterous).[3] T. tasmaniensis is sister to the Tasmanian Russalpia species.[4]
| Tasmaniacris | |
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| Tasmaniacris tasmaniensis, Tasmanian Grasshopper, Tasmania, Australia | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Orthoptera |
| Suborder: | Caelifera |
| Family: | Acrididae |
| Tribe: | Catantopini |
| Subtribe: | Russalpiina |
| Genus: | Tasmaniacris Sjöstedt, 1932 |
| Species: | T. tasmaniensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Tasmaniacris tasmaniensis (Bolívar, 1898)
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References
edit- ^ "Tasmaniacris". GBIF. Retrieved 2021-09-09.
- ^ Otte, Daniel; Cigliano, Maria Marta; Braun, Holger; Eades, David C. (2020). "genus Tasmaniacris Sjöstedt, 1932". Orthoptera species file online, Version 5.0. Retrieved 2020-11-24.
- ^ Key, K. H. L. (1991). "On four endemic genera of Tasmanian Acrididae (Orthoptera)". Invertebrate Systematics. 5 (2): 241–288. doi:10.1071/it9910241. ISSN 1447-2600.
- ^ Koot, Emily M.; Morgan-Richards, Mary; Trewick, Steven A. (2020). "An alpine grasshopper radiation older than the mountains, on Kā Tiritiri o te Moana (Southern Alps) of Aotearoa (New Zealand)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 147: 106783. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2020.106783. ISSN 1055-7903.
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