Biology:Discotettiginae

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Short description: Subfamily of grasshoppers

Discotettiginae
Spiky Grouse Locust (Discotettix belzebuth) (6747966773).jpg
Discotettix belzebuth, Spiky Grouse Locust
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Caelifera
Infraorder: Acrididea
Superfamily: Tetrigoidea
Family: Tetrigidae
Subfamily: Scelimeninae
Hancock, 1907
Synonyms

Discotettigidae Hancock, 1907
Discotettigiae Hancock, 1907

Discotettiginae[1] is a subfamily of groundhoppers (Orthoptera: Caelifera): currently containing 6 genera and more than 20 described species.[2] These insects can be found in southern China, Indo-China and Malesia.[3]

Genera

These six genera belong to the subfamily Discotettiginae:

  • Arulenus Stål, 1877
  • Discotettix Costa, 1864
  • Flatocerus Liang & Zheng, 1984
  • Hirrius Bolívar, 1887
  • Kraengia Bolívar, 1909
  • Phaesticus Uvarov, 1940

References

  1. Hancock JL (1907) Genera Insectorum 48: 1-79, pl. 1-4.
  2. "Discotettiginae Report". https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=657611. Retrieved 2019-10-15. 
  3. Otte, Daniel; Cigliano, Maria Marta; Braun, Holger; Eades, David C. (2019). "subfamily Discotettiginae Hancock, 1907". http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1102792. Retrieved 2019-07-02. 

Further reading

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q21221128 entry