Discotettix
Appearance
Discotettix | |
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Discotettix belzebuth | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Orthoptera |
Suborder: | Caelifera |
Family: | Tetrigidae |
Tribe: | Discotettigini |
Genus: | Discotettix Costa, 1864 |
Species | |
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Synonyms | |
Mnesarchus Stål, 1877 |
Discotettix[1] is a genus of pygmy grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae) found in Malesia, Brunei, Indonesia and the Philippines. They are commonly known as spiky pygmy devils. After revision, it is the type genus of the tribe Discotettigini and now placed in the subfamily Scelimeninae.[2][3]
Species
[edit]The Orthoptera Species File[4] lists two subgenera:
- Discotettix (Discotettix) Costa, 1864
- Discotettix aruanus Skejo, Pushkar & Tumbrinck, 2022
- Discotettix belzebuth (Serville, 1838) - type species (as D. armatus Costa, 1864)
synonym: Discotettix adenanii Mahmood, Idris & Salmah, 2007 - Discotettix doriae Bolívar, 1898
- Discotettix kirscheyi Skejo, Pushkar, Tumbrinck & Tan, 2022
- Discotettix selysi Bolívar, 1887
synonym: Discotettix selangori Mahmood, Idris & Salmah, 2007 - Discotettix sumatrensis Skejo, Pushkar & Tumbrinck, 2022
- Discotettix (Mnesarchus) Stål, 1877
- Discotettix scabridus (Stål, 1877)
Disconius
[edit]The species Disconius shelfordi (Hancock, 1907) from Borneo, was placed in new genus Disconius Skejo, Pushkar & Tumbrinck, 2022[3]: having previously been described as Discotettix shelfordi Hancock, 1907.
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References
[edit]- ^ Costa A (1864) Annu. Ist. Mus. Zool. Univ. Napoli 4: 59.
- ^ Muhammad AA, Tan MK, Abdullah, Azirun, Bhaskar, Skejo (2018) Zootaxa 4485(1): 20.
- ^ a b Skejo J; Pushkar N; Tumbrinck J. "Spiky pygmy devils: revision of the genus Discotettix (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae) and synonymy of Discotettiginae with Scelimeninae". Zootaxa. 5217 (1). doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5217.1.1. ISSN 1175-5334.
- ^ Orthoptera Species File (retrieved 24 August 2024)
External links
[edit]Media related to Discotettix at Wikimedia Commons
- Images of Discotettix at iNaturalist