Paprides

{{Short description|Genus of grasshoppers}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Paprides nitidus 28135756.jpg

| image_caption = Paprides nitidus, New Zealand

| taxon = Paprides

| authority = Hutton, 1898

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Paprides is a genus of short-horned grasshoppers in the family Acrididae. There are at least two described species in Paprides, found in New Zealand. Both species were moved to the genus Sigaus in 2023{{Cite journal |last=Trewick |first=Steven A. |last2=Koot |first2=Emily M. |last3=Morgan-Richards |first3=Mary |date=2023 |title=Māwhitiwhiti Aotearoa: Phylogeny and synonymy of the silent alpine grasshopper radiation of New Zealand (Orthoptera: Acrididae) |url=https://mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5383.2.7 |journal=Zootaxa |language=en |volume=5383 |issue=2 |pages=225–241 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.5383.2.7 |issn=1175-5334|doi-access=free }}

Species

These species use to belong to the genus Paprides:

  • Sigaus dugdali (Bigelow, 1967). A grasshopper species found in tussock above 400 m above sea level in the southern half of South Island New Zealand.
  • Sigaus nitidus (Hutton, 1898) An alpine grasshopper species restricted to the northern two thirds of South Island New Zealand. Females are larger than males.{{Cite journal |last=Nakano |first=Mari |last2=Morgan-Richards |first2=Mary |last3=Clavijo-McCormick |first3=Andrea |last4=Trewick |first4=Steven |date=2023 |title=Abundance and distribution of antennal sensilla on males and females of three sympatric species of alpine grasshopper (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Catantopinae) in Aotearoa New Zealand |url=https://doi.org/10.1007/s00435-022-00579-z |journal=Zoomorphology |language=en |volume=142 |issue=1 |pages=51–62 |doi=10.1007/s00435-022-00579-z |issn=1432-234X|doi-access=free }} This species is sister to three species that were previously in the genus Brachaspis (Sigaus collinus; S. nivalis and S. robustus).

References

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{{Cite web| title=Paprides

| url=https://www.gbif.org/species/1710863

| website=GBIF

| access-date=2021-09-09

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{{Cite web

| access-date = 2020-11-24

| title = genus Paprides Hutton, 1898

| date = 2020

| last1 = Otte | first1 = Daniel

| last2 = Cigliano | first2 = Maria Marta

| last3 = Braun | first3 = Holger

| last4 = Eades | first4 = David C.

| url = http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1109317

| website = Orthoptera species file online, Version 5.0

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