Xerohippus

{{Short description|Genus of grasshoppers}}

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Xerohippus is a genus of Palaearctic grasshoppers in the tribe Dociostaurini erected by Boris Uvarov in 1942.{{cite journal| title=New and less known southern Palaearctic Orthoptera | last=Uvarov | first=B. P. | journal=Transactions of the American Entomological Society| year=1942 | volume=67 | issue=4 | pages=303–361 [325]| jstor=25077483 | url=http://reader.library.cornell.edu/docviewer/digital?id=chla5077659_4277_003#page/85/mode/1up}} Species are recorded from North Africa, the Iberian Peninsula and the Middle East up to the Black Sea (probably incomplete distribution).

Species

The Orthoptera Species File[http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1105682 Orthoptera Species File: genus Xerohippus Uvarov, 1942 (Version 5.0/5.0: retrieved 28 May 2023)] lists:

  1. Xerohippus alkani Karabag, 1953
  2. Xerohippus anatolicus Ramme, 1951
  3. Xerohippus azami (Bolívar, 1901)
  4. Xerohippus cyprius Uvarov, 1942 - type species
  5. Xerohippus occidentalis Pascual & Aguirre Segura, 1996
  6. Xerohippus palaestinus Uvarov, 1942
  7. Xerohippus rhelbanensis (Defaut, 1984)
  8. Xerohippus savignyi (Krauss, 1890)
  9. Xerohippus sinuosus Uvarov, 1942
  10. Xerohippus solerii (Jannone, 1936)
  11. Xerohippus syriacus (Bolívar, 1911)

References

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