Acanthacris
Genus of grasshoppers
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Acanthacris[1] is a genus of African grasshoppers in the subfamily Cyrtacanthacridinae.
| Acanthacris | |
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| A. ruficornis (garden locust) in Ghana | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Orthoptera |
| Suborder: | Caelifera |
| Superfamily: | Acridoidea |
| Family: | Acrididae |
| Subfamily: | Cyrtacanthacridinae |
| Genus: | Acanthacris Uvarov, 1924 |
Species
The following species are included:[2]
- Acanthacris aithioptera Mungai, 1987
- Acanthacris deckeni (Gerstaecker, 1869)
- Acanthacris elgonensis Sjöstedt, 1932
- Acanthacris ruficornis (Fabricius, 1787) - type species (as Gryllus ruficornis Fabricius = subsp. A. r. ruficornis)
The genus Acanthacris belongs to subfamily Cyrtacanthacridinae (W.F. Kirby, 1902),[3] of locusts (Acrididae) and other grasshoppers: order Orthoptera.
A. ruficornis is distributed throughout Africa and parts of the Arabian Peninsula, as well as in southern Spain.[4] Other species are recorded from mainland Africa.