Cercina (grasshopper)
| Cercina | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Orthoptera |
| Suborder: | Caelifera |
| Family: | Acrididae |
| Subfamily: | Caryandinae |
| Genus: | Cercina Stål, 1878 |
| Synonyms | |
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Cledra Bolívar, 1918 | |
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Cercina is a genus of Asian grasshoppers in the subfamily Caryandinae (it was placed previously in the Oxyinae) first described by Carl Stål (1833–1878), a Swedish entomologist. Species records (probably incomplete) are from Sri Lanka, Nepal and Thailand.
Species include:
- Cercina mussoriensis Prasad & Sinha, 1956
- Cercina obtusa Stål, 1878 - type species
- Cercina phillipsi Henry, 1933