{{Short description|Genus of grasshoppers}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Variegated grasshopper (Zonocerus variegatus).jpg | image_caption = ''Zonocerus variegatus'' | display_parents = 2 | taxon = Zonocerus | authority = Stål, 1873 | range_map = | range_map_caption = | synonyms = | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = See text }}
'''''Zonocerus''''' is a genus of African grasshoppers (Caelifera) in the family Pyrgomorphidae and the tribe Phymateini.<ref name="Orthoptera Species File"/><ref name="COL"/> ''Zonocerus elegans'' is found in central, eastern and southern regions, including Madagascar, and ''Z. variegatus'' found in western regions.<ref name="Orthoptera Species File">{{cite web |url=http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1120826 |title=genus ''Zonocerus'' Stål, 1873 |work=Orthoptera Species File (Version 5.0/5.0) |access-date=7 July 2021 }}</ref>
==Description== Both species are significant agricultural pests, defoliating crops of African smallholder farmers. Both adults and nymphs have relatively bright, aposematic colours, and adults typically are about {{cvt|3-5|cm}} long.<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>
==Species== The ''Orthoptera Species File''<ref name="Orthoptera Species File"/> and Catalogue of Life<ref name="COL"/> list the following: *''Zonocerus elegans'' <small>(Thunberg, 1815)</small> – '''type species''' (as "''Gryllus elegans''" Thunberg) *''Zonocerus variegatus'' <small>(Linnaeus, 1758)</small>
==Gallery== <gallery> File:Zonocerus elegans, voetganger, Roodeplaat NR.jpg|''Z. elegans'' nymph File:Variegated grasshopper (Zonocerus variegatus) nymph.jpg|''Z. variegatus'' nymph File:Elegant Grasshoppers (Zonocerus elegans) mating (13605244233).jpg|''Z. elegans'', mating pair </gallery>
==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name="COL">{{cite web|title=Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist.|url=http://www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2011/search/all/key/zonocerus/match/1|author=Roskov Y.|author2= Kunze T.|author3=Orrell T.|author4=Abucay L.|author5=Paglinawan L.|author6=Culham A.|author7=Bailly N.|author8=Kirk P.|author9=Bourgoin T.|author10=Baillargeon G.|author11=Decock W.|author12=De Wever A.|editor=Didžiulis V.|publisher=Species 2000: Reading, UK.|year=2011|access-date=24 September 2012}}</ref> }}
==External links== *{{Commons category-inline|Zonocerus|''Zonocerus''}} *{{Wikispecies-inline |Zonocerus|''Zonocerus''}}
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Category:Pyrgomorphidae Category:Caelifera genera Category:Taxa named by Carl Stål