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Acrididae (family)


Identification code: 300310686



Alternative term/s

  • acridids
  • short-horned grasshopper
  • short-horned grasshoppers

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Scope note:

Members of a family containing around 10,000 species of grasshoppers, characterized by short, heavy antennae, a four-valved ovipositor for laying eggs, a three-segmented tarsi (distal segments of the leg), being herbivorous, and including some of the most destructive species of agricultural pests known, the plague, or migratory, locusts.

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