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Eumastacoid Stick Grasshoppers
Eumastacoidea
Eumastacoidea is a superfamily within the order Orthoptera. The family has a mainly tropical distribution. Some of the characters of the members of the superfamily are the lack of an abdominal tympanum, wings if present widen towards the tip, the antennae are short in some groups the hindlegs are spread out laterally at rest. The overall classification based on genitalic characters and the geographic distribution of the groups are as follows:
7 branches of this superfamily, most-observed first
Monkey Grasshoppers
familyEumastacidae
Chorotypidae
familyChorotypidae
Australian Matchstick and Monkey Grasshoppers
familyMorabidae
Forbhoppers
familyThericleidae
Episactidae
familyEpisactidae
Bushhoppers
familyEuschmidtiidae
Mastacideidae
familyMastacideidae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 48519.