Cercina (grasshopper)

Short description: Genus of grasshoppers

Cercina

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Orthoptera
Suborder:  | Caelifera
Family:  | Acrididae
Subfamily:  | Caryandinae
Genus:  | Cercina
Stål, 1878
Synonyms

Cledra Bolívar, 1918

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Cercina is a genus of Asian grasshoppers in the subfamily Caryandinae (it was placed previously in the Oxyinae) first described by Carl Stål (1833–1878), a Swedish entomologist.[1] Species records (probably incomplete) are from Sri Lanka, Nepal and Thailand.[2]

Species include:[2]

1. Cercina mussoriensis Prasad & Sinha, 1956
2. Cercina obtusa Stål, 1878 \- type species
3. Cercina phillipsi Henry, 1933

## References

1. ↑ Stål C (1878) Bihang Kungl. Svenska Vet. Akad. Handl. 5(4): 97.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "genus Cercina Stål, 1878". Orthoptera Species File Orthoptera Species File (Version 5.0/5.0). http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1114186.

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