Oxyphlaeobella

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

Oxyphlaeobella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Caelifera
Family: Acrididae
Subfamily: Acridinae
Tribe: Phlaeobini
Genus: Oxyphlaeobella
Ramme, 1941
Type species
Oxyphlaeobella rugosa
Ramme, 1941

The head is narrow and pointed with the fastigium [3] slightly longer than wide.[2] The head, pronotum, and rear of the abdomen are heavily wrinkled.[2] It differs from Chlorophlaeoba in the shape of its forewings and fastigium.[2]

The genus was formally described by German entomologist Willy Ramme in 1940.[2] The type species is a male Oxyphlaeobella rugosa, collected at an elevation of 2,800 m (9,200 ft) above sea level on Mt. Victoria (Nat Ma Taung) of the Chin Hills range in Myanmar.[2]

Species

Species and type localities include:[1][4]

  • Oxyphlaeobella kongtumensis Mishchenko & Storozhenko, 1990 — Vietnam[5]
  • Oxyphlaeobella rugosa Ramme, 1941 — Chin Hills, Myanmar[6]

References
  1. Cigliano, M.M.; H. Braun; D.C. Eades & D. Otte. "Oxyphlaeobella". orthoptera.speciesfile.org. Orthoptera Species File. Retrieved 8 December 2018.
  2. 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.
  3. "fastigium, fastigia, fastigial". bugguide.net. Retrieved 11 December 2018.
  4. 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.
  5. Cigliano, M.M.; H. Braun; D.C. Eades & D. Otte. "Oxyphlaeobella kongtumensis". orthoptera.speciesfile.org. Orthoptera Species File. Retrieved 8 December 2018.
  6. Cigliano, M.M.; H. Braun; D.C. Eades & D. Otte. "Oxyphlaeobella rugosa". orthoptera.speciesfile.org. Orthoptera Species File. Retrieved 8 December 2018.
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