Cyrtacanthacris aeruginosa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Caelifera
Family: Acrididae
Subfamily: Cyrtacanthacridinae
Tribe: Cyrtacanthacridini
Genus: Cyrtacanthacris
Species:
C. aeruginosa
Binomial name
Cyrtacanthacris aeruginosa
(Stoll, 1813)
Cyrtacanthacris aeruginosa's territorial extent

Cyrtacanthacris aeruginosa or simply, green tree locust,[1][2][3] is a large species of grasshopper that can be found in the grasslands[4] of Africa. They pertain to the genus Cyrtacanthacris and are composed by three subspecies, C. a. aeruginosa, C. a. flavescens and C. a. goldingi, all three of them are monophyletic.[5] The specie is univoltine, that is, it only produces one brood of offspring per year, furthermore it also experiences egg diapause, meaning that the eggs have a phase of suspended or arrested growth.[4] In terms of overwintering strategy, Aeruginosa adults mate and then the female lay the eggs and die before the dry season, the eggs stay in diapause for 7 months[4] and take 45–67 days to incubate.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Wildlife Den – South African Wildlife Photography » Green Tree Locust". Retrieved 2023-09-01.
  2. ↑ "Green Tree Locust". Project Noah. Retrieved 2023-09-01.
  3. ↑ "Green tree locust (Grasshoppers, Locusts and allies of South Africa) · iNaturalist". iNaturalist. Retrieved 2023-09-01.
  4. 1 2 3 Bam, Adrian; Addison, Pia; Conlong, Desmond (2020). "Acridid ecology in the sugarcane agro-ecosystem in the Zululand region of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa". Journal of Orthoptera Research. 29 (1): 9–16. doi:10.3897/jor.29.34626. ISSN 1082-6467. JSTOR 26976734. S2CID 210964805.
  5. ↑ Song, Hojun; Wenzel, John W. (August 2008). "Phylogeny of bird-grasshopper subfamily Cyrtacanthacridinae (Orthoptera: Acrididae) and the evolution of locust phase polyphenism". Cladistics. 24 (4): 515–542. doi:10.1111/j.1096-0031.2007.00190.x. PMID 34879633. S2CID 31148667.
  6. ↑ Jerath, M. L. (2009-04-02). "Notes on the biology of some short-horned grasshoppers from Eastern Nigeria (Orthoptera: Acridoidea)". Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London. Series A, General Entomology. 43 (1–3): 27–38. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3032.1968.tb01230.x.


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