Brachystola

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Ordo: Orthoptera
Subordo: Caelifera
Infraordo: Acrididea
Superfamilia: Acridoidea

Familia: Romaleidae
Subfamilia: Romaleinae
Tribus: Romaleini
Genus: Brachystola

Brachystola is a genus of grassland lubber grasshoppers in the family Romaleidae, found in the United States and Mexico. They are among the largest grasshoppers found in North America. The species Brachystola magna happens to have large and easily visible meiotic chromosomes, and was used in early genetic studies.[1][2][3][4][5]

Species

These six species belong to the genus Brachystola:

Brachystola behrensii Scudder, 1877
Brachystola eiseni Bruner, 1906
Brachystola magna (Girard, 1853) (plains lubber grasshopper)
Brachystola mexicana Bruner, 1904
Brachystola ponderosa Bruner, 1906
Brachystola virescens (Charpentier, 1845)

References

"Brachystola Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2020-03-19.
"Brachystola". GBIF. Retrieved 2020-03-19.
"Brachystola genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2020-03-19.
Otte, Daniel; Cigliano, Maria Marta; Braun, Holger; Eades, David C. (2019). "genus Brachystola Scudder, 1876". Orthoptera species file online, Version 5.0. Retrieved 2019-10-16.

Crow, Ernest W.; Crow, James F. (2002). "100 Years Ago: Walter Sutton and the Chromosome Theory of Heredity". Genetics. 160 (1).

Further reading

Capinera, J. L; Scott, R. D.; Walker, T. J. (2004). Field Guide to Grasshoppers, Katydids, and Crickets of the United States. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-0-8014-8948-8.
Jackman, John A.; Drees, Bastiaan M. (1998). A Field Guide to Common Texas Insects. Gulf Publishing. ISBN 9780877192633.