{{Short description|Genus of grasshoppers}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Brazilian flag grasshopper (9378880424).jpg | image_caption = ''Chromacris psittacus'' | taxon = Chromacris | authority = Walker, 1870 | display_parents = 2 }}
'''''Chromacris''''' is a genus of lubber grasshoppers in the family Romaleidae. The nine described species in ''Chromacris'' are found in Mexico, Central America, or South America.<ref name=gbif/><ref name=Otte2019/> They often have bright aposematic colors and they are presumed to be toxic.<ref name=Whitman2008>{{cite journal| last=Whitman | first=D. | last2=Vincent | first2=S. | year=2008 | title=Large size as an antipredator defense in an insect | journal=Journal of Orthoptera Research | volume=17 | issue=2 | pages=353-371 | doi=10.1665/1082-6467-17.2.353 | doi-access=free }}</ref>
The genus was first described in 1870 by Francis Walker.<ref name="gbif" /><ref>{{cite journal| author=Walker, F.|authorlink=Francis Walker (entomologist)|date= 1870|title= Genus 18 CHROMACRIS |journal= Catalogue of the Specimens of Dermaptera Saltatoria in the Collection of the British Museum. London|volume=4 |pages=605–809 [643]|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8218913}}</ref>
[[File:Soldadinhos.jpg| thumb|Nymphs of ''Chromacris speciosa'' are highly social.]]
==Species== These nine species belong to the genus ''Chromacris'': * ''Chromacris colorata'' <small>(Serville, 1838)</small> * ''Chromacris icterus'' <small>(Pictet & Saussure, 1887)</small> * ''Chromacris miles'' <small>(Drury, 1770)</small> * ''Chromacris minuta'' <small>Roberts & Carbonell, 1982</small> * ''Chromacris nuptialis'' <small>(Gerstaecker, 1873)</small> * ''Chromacris peruviana'' <small>(Pictet & Saussure, 1887)</small> * ''Chromacris psittacus'' <small>(Gerstaecker, 1873)</small> * ''Chromacris speciosa'' <small>(Thunberg, 1824)</small> * ''Chromacris trogon'' <small>(Gerstaecker, 1873)</small>
==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name=gbif> {{Cite web| title=''Chromacris'' | url=https://www.gbif.org/species/1714440 | website=GBIF | accessdate=2020-03-22 }}</ref>
<ref name=Otte2019> {{Cite web | accessdate = 2019-10-16 | title = genus Chromacris Walker, 1870 | date = 2019 | last1 = Otte | first1 = Daniel | last2 = Cigliano | first2 = Maria Marta | last3 = Braun | first3 = Holger | last4 = Eades | first4 = David C. | url = http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1116123 | website = Orthoptera species file online, Version 5.0 }}</ref> }}
==Further reading== {{refbegin}} * {{Cite book | title = Field Guide to Grasshoppers, Katydids, and Crickets of the United States | date = 2004 | last1 = Capinera | first1 = J. L | last2 = Scott | first2 = R. D. | last3 = Walker | first3 = T. J. | publisher = Cornell University Press | isbn = 978-0-8014-8948-8 }} {{refend}}
==External links== {{refbegin}} * {{Commons-inline}} {{refend}}
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Category:Romaleidae Category:Taxa named by Francis Walker (entomologist) Category:Taxa described in 1870
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