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Colemania sphenarioides

Colemania sphenarioides also known as the Jola or Deccan grasshopper is a species of wingless grasshopper in the monotypic genus Colemania which is endemic to peninsular India. It sometimes causes damage to crops of sorghum. The genus is named after Leslie Coleman, who, along with K. Kunhikannan obtained the type specimens of the species from Honnali and studied the species in southern India. It was described by the Spanish entomologist Ignacio Bolívar.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 761326.