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| 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 | |
| See text | |
| 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)
Note: Discotettix shelfordi Hancock, 1907 was previously assigned to this genus but is now moved into its own genus, Disconius Skejo, Pushkar & Tumbrinck, 2022
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.
- ^ "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
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Media related to Discotettix at Wikimedia Commons
