Sphenarium
| Sphenarium | |
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| Chapulín de la milpa (Sphenarium purpurascens) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Euarthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Orthoptera |
| Family: | Pyrgomorphidae |
| Subfamily: | Pyrgomorphinae |
| Genus: | Sphenarium Charpentier, 1842 |
| Species | |
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Sphenarium is a grasshoppers genus in the family Pyrgomorphidae indigenous to Mexico. Various species are caught and eaten as chapulines.
Species
- Sphenarium borrei
- Sphenarium macrophallicum
- Sphenarium mexicanum
- Sphenarium purpurascens
- Sphenarium rugosum
- Sphenarium variabile
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