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Genus of Caelifera

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 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.

Species

The Orthoptera Species File 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

The species Disconius shelfordi (Hancock, 1907) from Borneo, was placed in new genus Disconius Skejo, Pushkar & Tumbrinck, 2022: having previously been described as Discotettix shelfordi Hancock, 1907.

External image
image icon Images of Disconius at iNaturalist




References

  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. ^ 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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Taxon identifiers
Discotettix
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