Grasshopper: Red base-winged vegetable grasshopper (Atractomorpha crenulata)

A male Red base-winged vegetable grasshopper

There are a lot of these Red base-winged vegetable grasshoppers (Atractomorpha crenulata) in the backyard in Jonggol, West Java.

Scientific Classification of Red Base-Winged Vegetable Grasshopper (Atractomorpha crenulata)

Kingdom Animalia C. Linnaeus, 1758 – animals

Subkingdom Bilateria (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983 – bilaterians

Branch Protostomia Grobben, 1908 – protostomes

Infrakingdom Ecdysozoa A.M.A. Aguinaldo et al., 1997 ex T. Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - ecdysozoans

Superphylum Panarthropoda Cuvier

Phylum Arthropoda Latreille, 1829 – arthropods

Subphylum Mandibulata Snodgrass, 1938

Infraphylum Atelocerata Heymons, 1901

Superclass Panhexapoda

Class Insecta C. Linnaeus, 1758 – insects

Subclass Dicondylia

Infraclass Pterygota - winged Insects

Superorder Orthopterida

Order Orthoptera Latreille, 1793 - locusts, katydids, crickets, grasshoppers

Suborder Caelifera Ander, 1939 - short-horned grasshoppers

Infraorder Acrididea

Superfamily Pyrgomorphoidea Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1874

Family Pyrgomorphidae Brunner, 1893

Genus Atractomorpha Saussure, 1862

Species A. crenulata

Botanical/Scientific name: Atractomorpha crenulata (Fabricius, 1793)

Synonym

Atractomorpha acuminipennis (Blanchard, E.E., 1963)

Atractomorpha consobrina Saussure, 1862

Atractomorpha obscura Bolivar, I., 1917

Atractomorpha scaber (Thunberg, 1815)

Pyrgomorpha acuminipennis Blanchard, E.E., 1963

Truxalis crenulatus Fabricius, 1793

Truxalis porrecta Walker, F., 1859

Truxalis scaber Thunberg, 1815

references:

• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrgomorphidae
• species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Atractomorpha_(Pyrgomorphidae)
• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Scientific_classification
• taxonomicon.taxonomy.nl/TaxonTree.aspx?id=224623&tree=0.1
• zipcodezoo.com/Key/Animalia/Pyrgomorphidae_Family.asp
• www.biolib.cz/en/taxonposition/id377276/

A male Red base-winged vegetable grasshopper

A female Red base-winged vegetable grasshopper

Red base-winged vegetable grasshopper nymph

A female Red base-winged vegetable grasshopper

Red base-winged vegetable grasshopper mating

Red base-winged vegetable grasshopper moulting process

Photos of Red Base-Winged Vegetable Grasshopper (Atractomorpha crenulata) were taken using a camera phone Sony Ericsson K800i in Jonggol, West Java, Indonesia.

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