Acanthoplus

Acanthoplus is a genus of armoured ground cricket.[1]

Corn crickets
A. discoidalis in the Kruger Park, South Africa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Orthoptera
Superfamily:	Tettigonioidea
Family:	Tettigoniidae
Subfamily:	Hetrodinae
Genus:	Acanthoplus Stål, 1873
Species
See article

Species

• A. armativentris — corn cricket
• A. bechuanus
• A. cervinus — corn cricket
• A. desertorum
• A. discoidalis — armoured katydid, corn cricket
• A. germanus
• A. innotatus
• A. jallae
• A. loandae
• A. longipes — long-legged armoured katydid
• A. pallidus
• A. serratus
• A. spiseri
• A. stratiotes
• A. varicornis
• A. weidneri[2]

References

1. Bateman, Philip; Fleming, P. A. (28 April 2009). "There will be blood: autohaemorrhage behaviour as part of the defence repertoire of an insect". Journal of Zoology. 278 (4): 342–348. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.2009.00582.x. ISSN 1469-7998. Archived from the original on 16 October 2012. Retrieved 8 July 2009.
2. "Dictionary of Common (Vernacular) Names". Nomen.at. Retrieved 18 June 2014.