Psoloessa

Psoloessa is a genus of slant-faced grasshoppers in the family Acrididae. There are at least four described species in Psoloessa.[1][2][3][4]

Psoloessa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Caelifera
Family: Acrididae
Subfamily: Gomphocerinae
Genus: Psoloessa
Scudder, 1875

Species

These four species belong to the genus Psoloessa:

  • Psoloessa brachyptera (Bruner, 1905)
  • Psoloessa delicatula (Scudder, 1876) (brown-spotted range grasshopper)
  • Psoloessa microptera Otte, 1979
  • Psoloessa texana Scudder, 1875 (Texas spotted range grasshopper)

References

  1. "Psoloessa Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-22.
  2. "Psoloessa". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-22.
  3. Otte, Daniel; Cigliano, Maria Marta; Braun, Holger; Eades, David C. (2019). "genus Psoloessa Scudder, 1875". Orthoptera species file online, Version 5.0. Retrieved 2019-07-02.

Further reading

  • Otte, Daniel (1981). The North American Grasshoppers, Volume I, Acrididae, Gomphocerinae and Acridinae. Harvard. ISBN 978-0674626607.
  • Bland, Roger (2003). The Orthoptera of Michigan: Biology, Keys, and Descriptions of Grasshoppers, Katydids, and Crickets. Michigan State University Extension. ISBN 978-1565250178.
  • Capinera, J. L; Scott, R. D.; Walker, T. J. (2004). Field Guide to Grasshoppers, Katydids, and Crickets of the United States. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-0-8014-8948-8.


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