Acanthoxia
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- "Pretoriana" redirects here. The tachinid fly genus invalidly named thus by Curran in 1938 is now Gautengicesa. The moth genus invalidly named thus by Traugott-Olsen in 1995 is now considered a junior synonym of PerittiaPerittiaPerittia is a genus of moths of the Elachistidae family.-Species:*Perittia andoi Inoue et al, 1982*Perittia antauges Kaila, 2011*Perittia biloba Sruoga, 1990*Perittia bullatella Chrétien, 1915...
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Acanthoxia is a genus
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of grasshopper
Grasshopper
The grasshopper is an insect of the suborder Caelifera in the order Orthoptera. To distinguish it from bush crickets or katydids, it is sometimes referred to as the short-horned grasshopper...
s in the family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
Acrididae
Acrididae
The 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 are of the Acrididae. The subfamily Oedipodinae is sometimes classified as a distinct family Oedipodidae in the...
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