Kingdom Animalia Family Chorotypidae Rank Genus | Class Insecta Phylum Arthropoda Order Orthoptera | |
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Similar Orthoptera, Eumastacoidea, Tetrigoidea, Eumastacidae, Pyrgomorphidae | ||
Phyllochoreia is a genus of grasshopper endemic to the Western Ghats of India and Sri Lanka. It is placed in the subfamily Chorotypidae of the superfamily, Eumastacoidea.
The type species is P. ramakrishnai named by Bolívar in 1914 after the Indian entomologist T. V. Ramakrishna Ayyar.
The genus now includes four other species:
References
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