Chlorophlaeoba

Chlorophlaeoba is a genus of grasshoppers in the family Acrididae, subfamily Acridinae. Species can be found in southern China and Indo-China.[1][2]

Chlorophlaeoba
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Caelifera
Family: Acrididae
Subfamily: Acridinae
Genus: Chlorophlaeoba
Ramme, 1941
Type species
Chlorophlaeoba tonkinensis
Ramme, 1941

The genus was formally described by German entomologist Willy Ramme in 1940.[3] It is placed in the tribe Phlaeobini in a 2014 checklist of Vietnamese Orthoptera, although as of December 2018 the Orthoptera Species File has not assigned it to a tribe.[1][4] The holotype is a male Chlorophlaeoba tonkinensis tonkinensis from Vietnam.[3][5]

Chlorophlaeoba is similar to the genus Phlaeoba. In contrast with Phlaeoba, the head of Chlorophlaeoba substantially pointed, as long or longer than the pronotum, and the species have an olive green coloring.[3][5]

Species

The Orthoptera Species File lists six species and two subspecies:[1]

  • Chlorophlaeoba hongkongensis Zheng & Li, 2012
  • Chlorophlaeoba longiceps Liang & Zheng, 1988
  • Chlorophlaeoba longusala Zheng, 1982 – sometimes considered a synonym of C. tonkinensis[5]
  • Chlorophlaeoba nigripennis Zheng, Lin, Xu & Ma, 2013
  • Chlorophlaeoba taiwanensis Yin, Li & Yin, 2007
  • Chlorophlaeoba tonkinensis Ramme, 1941
    • Chlorophlaeoba tonkinensis tonkinensis Ramme, 1941
    • Chlorophlaeoba tonkinensis siamensis Ingrisch, 1989

References
  1. Orthoptera Species File (Version 5.0/5.0: retrieved 8 December 2018)
  2. Roskov Y.; Kunze T.; Orrell T.; Abucay L.; Paglinawan L.; Culham A.; Bailly N.; Kirk P.; Bourgoin T.; Baillargeon G.; Decock W.; De Wever A. (2011). Didžiulis V. (ed.). "Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist". Species 2000: Reading, UK. Retrieved 24 September 2012.
  3. Ramme, W. (1940). "Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Acrididen-Fauna des indomalayischen und benachbarter Gebiete (Orth.)". Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin. Zoologisches Museum und Institut für Spezielle Zoologie (Berlin). 25 (1): 1–242. doi:10.1002/mmnz.19400250101.
  4. KIm, Taewoo; PHam, Hong Thai (30 May 2014). "Checklist of Vietnamese Orthoptera (Saltatoria)". Zootaxa. 3811 (1): 53–82. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3811.1.3. PMID 24943148.
  5. Ingrisch, S. (30 April 1989). "Records, descriptions, and revisionary studies of Acrididae from Thailand and adjacent regions (Orthoptera, Acridoidea)". Spixiana. 11 (3): 205–242. Retrieved 8 December 2018.
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