Pseudoproscopia scabra
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| Pseudoproscopia scabra | |
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| Horsehead grasshopper, Tambopata National Reserve, Peru | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Orthoptera |
| Suborder: | Caelifera |
| Family: | Proscopiidae |
| Subfamily: | Proscopiinae |
| Tribe: | Proscopiini |
| Genus: | Pseudoproscopia |
| Species: | P. scabra |
| Binomial name | |
| Pseudoproscopia scabra (Klug, 1820) | |
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Pseudoproscopia scabra, commonly known as the horsehead grasshopper, is the type species in its genus of neotropical "stick grasshoppers": in the subfamily Proscopiinae.[1] It is found in South America in Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Venezuela and Peru.[2]