{{Short description|Genus of cricket-like animals}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Galidacris.jpg | image_caption = ''Galidacris'', species unknown - Tiputini Biodiversity Station, Ecuador | taxon = Galidacris | authority = Descamps & Amédégnato, 1972 }}
'''''Galidacris''''' is a genus of grasshoppers belonging to the family Acrididae.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=genus Galidacris Descamps & Amédégnato, 1972: Orthoptera Species File|url=http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1113552|access-date=2021-03-01|website=orthoptera.speciesfile.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Pocco|first1=Martina E.|last2=Cigliano|first2=María Marta|date=2020-03-10|title=The grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acridomorpha) from the Mitaraka Mountain Range, French Guiana|url=https://bioone.org/journals/zoosystema/volume-42/issue-7/zoosystema2020v42a7/The-grasshoppers-Orthoptera-Acridomorpha-from-the-Mitaraka-Mountain-Range-French/10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a7.full|journal=Zoosystema|volume=42|issue=7|pages=105|doi=10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a7|issn=1280-9551|url-access=subscription|hdl=11336/144118|hdl-access=free}}</ref> They are found in South America within Colombia and Ecuador. <ref name=":0" />
== Behavior == The males of the genus have been recorded approaching a female, moving their hind legs (knee-waving) and antennae (twitch-back) silently. The reasoning behind this requires further study. This behavior is a mark of convergent evolution as members in more distantly related grasshoppers share this behavior, while other closer genera do not.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Riede|first=Klaus|date=1987|title=Behavioural studies on neotropical grasshoppers: implication for taxonomy.|url=http://www.groms.de/data/zoology/riede/RiedeBaccettiBehaviouralStudies1987.pdf|journal=Evolutionary Biology of Orthopteroid Insects}}</ref>
== Species == * ''Galidacris agilis'' (Descamps & Amédégnato, 1972) * ''Galidacris cordillerae'' (Descamps & Amédégnato, 1972) * ''Galidacris eckardtae'' (Günther, 1940) * ''Galidacris variabilis'' (Descamps & Amédégnato, 1972)<ref name=":0" />
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Category:Acrididae Category:Acrididae genera