Tasmaniacris
Genus of grasshoppers
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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  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Orthoptera |
| Suborder: | Caelifera |
| Family: | Acrididae |
| Tribe: | Catantopini |
| Subtribe: | Russalpiina |
| Genus: | Tasmaniacris Sjöstedt, 1932 |
| Species: | T. tasmaniensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Tasmaniacris tasmaniensis (Bolívar, 1898) | |
