Aiolopus

TaxID: 243006

Basic Information

Aiolopus

Australian Aiolopus

Aiolopus is a genus of grasshopper belonging to the family Acrididae, subfamily Oedipodinae and tribe Epacromiini. Species can be found in Africa (including Madagascar), Europe and Asia - through to New Caledonia.

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Taxonomic Information

Eukaryota

Arthropoda

Insecta

Orthoptera

Acrididae

Aiolopus

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Photos (0 photos)

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Morphological Features

Body length: male 16.9–26.0 mm, female 21.0–30.8 mm. Antennae 22–24 segmented, as long as head and pronotum together. Fastigium of vertex pentagonal, moderately concave, slightly longer than wide, apex narrowly rounded. Pronotum relatively narrow; median carina strong in prozona; prozona cylindrical above, slightly constricted medially; metazona rather flat, posterior margin obtuse-angular. Tegmina relatively long, far exceeding apex of hind femur. Hind femur broad, 3.5 times as long as wide, with two dark spots on upper surface and two incomplete dark fasciae on inner surface; hind knee dark. Hind tibia shorter than hind femur, with 9 outer and 10 inner spines; inner apical spurs slightly less than twice as long as outer pair; hind tibia black basally with a broad ochraceous ring and a broad blackish or grey ring medially, reddish at apical third. Hind wing hyaline, sometimes base pale-yellow, slightly darkened apically. Pronotum often uniformly brown or sometimes greenish, rarely with weak ochraceous X-shaped pattern on dorsum.

Source: GBIF Life Stage: Adult Source Type: Taxonomic treatment
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Host Plants (0 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

No host plants available.

Quarantine Status (1 records)

Data sources: IPPC website and national quarantine websites; verified by human review.

Country Status Year Added
United States of America Quarantine pests —

Distribution (0 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

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No distribution records available.

Genomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No genome records available.

Transcriptomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No transcriptome records available.

DNA Barcodes (0 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

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