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Sphenarium
Sphenarium is a grasshoppers genus in the family Pyrgomorphidae indigenous to Mexico. Various species are caught and eaten as chapulines.
17 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Cornfield Grasshopper
speciesSphenarium purpurascens

Sphenarium histrio
speciesSphenarium histrio
Sphenarium mexicanum
speciesSphenarium mexicanum

Sphenarium occidentalis
speciesSphenarium occidentalis

Sphenarium minimum
speciesSphenarium minimum

Sphenarium borrei
speciesSphenarium borrei

Sphenarium rugosum
speciesSphenarium rugosum

Sphenarium planum
speciesSphenarium planum

Sphenarium totonacum
speciesSphenarium totonacum

Sphenarium variabile
speciesSphenarium variabile

Sphenarium zapotecum
speciesSphenarium zapotecum
Sphenarium macrophallicum
speciesSphenarium macrophallicum
Sphenarium adelinae
speciesSphenarium adelinae
Sphenarium crypticum
speciesSphenarium crypticum
Sphenarium infernalis
speciesSphenarium infernalis
Sphenarium miztecum
speciesSphenarium miztecum
Sphenarium tarascum
speciesSphenarium tarascum
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 180716.