Machaerocera mexicana Saussure, 1859 is a animal in the Acrididae family, order Orthoptera, kingdom Animalia. Not known to be toxic.

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Machaerocera mexicana Saussure, 1859

Machaerocera mexicana Saussure, 1859

Machaerocera mexicana is the only species in the Machaerocera band-winged grasshopper genus, found across the Americas.

Family
Genus
Machaerocera
Order
Orthoptera
Class
Insecta

About Machaerocera mexicana Saussure, 1859

Machaerocera is a genus of band-winged grasshoppers that belongs to the family Acrididae. This genus contains only one species: Machaerocera mexicana Saussure, 1859. This species is distributed across Mexico, the southwestern United States, Central America, and South America.

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Taxonomy

Animalia Arthropoda Insecta Orthoptera Acrididae Machaerocera

More from Acrididae

Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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