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Sphenarium
Sign in to saveSphenarium is a genus of grasshoppers in the family Pyrgomorphidae, native to Mexico and northern Central America. During outbreaks, they can cause significant damage to agricultural crops. Conversely, they have been caught for human consumption, for example as chapulines, since pre-Columbian times, a practice that also continues today.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 43
- With media
- 14
- Family
- Pyrgomorphidae
- Collections
- MHNCA, ECOSUR
- Recorded in
- Mexico
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Sphenarium is a genus of grasshoppers in the family Pyrgomorphidae, native to Mexico and northern Central America. During outbreaks, they can cause significant damage to agricultural crops. Conversely, they have been caught for human consumption, for example as chapulines, since pre-Columbian times, a practice that also continues today.
== Species == Sphenarium adelinae, Sanabria-Urbán, Song & Cueva del Castillo, 2017 Sphenarium borrei, Bolívar, 1884 Sphenarium crypticum, Sanabria-Urbán, Song & Cueva del Castillo, 2017 Sphenarium histrio, Gerstaecker, 1884 Sphenarium infernalis, Sanabria-Urbán, Song & Cueva del Castillo, 2017 Sphenarium macrophallicum, Kevan & Boyle, 1978 Sphenarium mexicanum, Saussure, 1859 Sphenarium minimum, Bruner, 1906 Sphenarium miztecum, Sanabria-Urbán, Song & Cueva del Castillo, 2017 Sphenarium occidentalis, Sanabria-Urbán, Song & Cueva del Castillo, 2017 Sphenarium planum, Bruner, 1906 Sphenarium purpurascens, Charpentier, 1845 Sphenarium rugosum, Bruner, 1906 Sphenarium tarascum, Sanabria-Urbán, Song & Cueva del Castillo, 2017 Sphenarium totonacum, Sanabria-Urbán, Song & Cueva del Castillo, 2017 Sphenarium variabile, Kevan & Boyle, 1978 Sphenarium zapotecum, Sanabria-Urbán, Song & Cueva del Castillo, 2017
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