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Discotettix

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Discotettix
Discotettix belzebuth
Scientific classification Edit this 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 groundhoppers (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae) found in Malesia, Brunei, Indonesia and the Philippines; they may be 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

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The Orthoptera Species File[4] lists two subgenera:

Discotettix (Discotettix) Costa, 1864
  1. Discotettix aruanus Skejo, Pushkar & Tumbrinck, 2022
  2. Discotettix belzebuth (Serville, 1838) - type species (as D. armatus Costa, 1864)
    synonym: Discotettix adenanii Mahmood, Idris & Salmah, 2007
  3. Discotettix doriae Bolívar, 1898
  4. Discotettix kirscheyi Skejo, Pushkar, Tumbrinck & Tan, 2022
  5. Discotettix selysi Bolívar, 1887
    synonym: Discotettix selangori Mahmood, Idris & Salmah, 2007
  6. Discotettix sumatrensis Skejo, Pushkar & Tumbrinck, 2022
Discotettix (Mnesarchus) Stål, 1877
  1. Discotettix scabridus (Stål, 1877)

Disconius

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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.

External image
image icon Images of Disconius at iNaturalist




References

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  1. ^ Costa A (1864) Annu. Ist. Mus. Zool. Univ. Napoli 4: 59.
  2. ^ Muhammad AA, Tan MK, Abdullah, Azirun, Bhaskar, Skejo (2018) Zootaxa 4485(1): 20.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ Orthoptera Species File (retrieved 24 August 2024)
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