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genus Acanthoscirtes Hemp, 2012

• Common name(s):  thorny meadow hoppers
• Distribution:
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• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Citations:
  • Hemp, C. 2012. In Hemp, C., Kehl, K.-G. Heller, J.W. Wägele & A. Hemp. Ecological adaptations of grassland-inhabiting flightless Orthoptera: Fulvoscirtes and Acanthoscirtes, two new genera of African Karniellina (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae, Conocephalinae, Conocephalini). Systematic Ent. 37:391 >> Acanthoscirtes    urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:74151
  • Hemp, C. 2021. A Field Guide to the Bushcrickets, Wetas and Raspy Crickets of Tanzania and Kenya 77 >> Acanthoscirtes
• Type species:  Phlesirtes kevani Chopard, by original designation
• No first use as family-group name is recorded in the database.

• species albostriatus Hemp, 2012
• species bilineatus (Chopard, 1954)
• species kevani (Chopard, 1954)

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