Epacromius

{{Short description|Genus of grasshoppers}}

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Epacromius is a genus of Palaearctic grasshoppers, typical of the tribe Epacromiini, erected by Boris Uvarov in 1942.Uvarov BP (1942) New and less known southern Palaearctic Orthoptera. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 67(4): 337, 338 [1941]. The recorded distribution of species is France and Spain in western Europe through temperate Asia to Japan (but locality records may be incomplete).

Species

The Orthoptera Species File[http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1103425 Orthoptera Species File: genus Epacromius Uvarov, 1942 (Version 5.0/5.0: retrieved 28 May 2023)] lists:

  1. Epacromius coerulipes (Ivanov, 1888)
  2. Epacromius fallax Wang, 2007
  3. Epacromius japonicus (Shiraki, 1910)
  4. Epacromius pulverulentus (Fischer von Waldheim, 1846)
  5. Epacromius tergestinus (Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1825) - type species (as Gryllus tergestinus Megerle von Mühlfeld = E. tergestinus tergestinus, one of 3 subspecies: by subsequent designationJohnston HB (1956) Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers 833 pp.)

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