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Monkey Grasshoppers
Eumastacidae
Eumastacidae are a family of grasshoppers sometimes known as monkey- or matchstick grasshoppers. They usually have thin legs that are held folded at right angles to the body, sometimes close to the horizontal plane. Many species are wingless and the head is at an angle with the top of the head often jutting above the line of the thorax and abdomen. They have three segmented tarsi and have a short antenna with a knobby organ at...
11 branches of this family, most-observed first
Eumastacinae
subfamilyEumastacinae
Paramastacinae
subfamilyParamastacinae
Morseinae
subfamilyMorseinae
Pseudomastacinae
subfamilyPseudomastacinae
Temnomastacinae
subfamilyTemnomastacinae
Gomphomastacinae
subfamilyGomphomastacinae
Parepisactinae
subfamilyParepisactinae
Masynteinae
subfamilyMasynteinae
Taphacris
genusTaphacris
Acutacris
genusAcutacris
Angulomastax
genusAngulomastax
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 85772.