Rhammatocerus

Rhammatocerus^[1] is a genus of grasshoppers in the subfamily Gomphocerinae and the tribe Scyllinini. There are about 16 described species in Rhammatocerus,^[2][3][4][5] including R. schistocercoides, the "Mato Grosso locust".

Rhammatocerus
Rhammatocerus pictus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Orthoptera
Suborder:	Caelifera
Family:	Acrididae
Subfamily:	Gomphocerinae
Tribe:	Scyllinini
Genus:	Rhammatocerus Saussure, 1861
Synonyms
Plectrophorus McNeill, 1897 Plectrotettix McNeill, 1897 Pseudostauronotus Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 Scyllina Stål, 1873

Species

These 16 species belong to the genus Rhammatocerus:

• Rhammatocerus alticola (Hebard, 1923)
• Rhammatocerus brasiliensis (Bruner, 1904)
• Rhammatocerus brunneri (Giglio-Tos, 1895)
• Rhammatocerus cyanipes (Fabricius, 1775)
• Rhammatocerus guerrai Assis-Pujol, 1997
• Rhammatocerus palustris Carbonell, 1988
• Rhammatocerus peragrans (Stål, 1861)
• Rhammatocerus pictus (Bruner, 1900)
• Rhammatocerus pratensis (Bruner, 1904)
• Rhammatocerus pseudocyanipes Assis-Pujol, 1997
• Rhammatocerus salinus (Bruner, 1904)
• Rhammatocerus schistocercoides (Rehn, 1906)
• Rhammatocerus suffusus (Rehn, 1906)
• Rhammatocerus varipes (Bruner, 1905)
• Rhammatocerus viatorius (Saussure, 1861) (traveller grasshopper)
• Rhammatocerus victori Alves Dos Santos & Assis-Pujol, 2003