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Orthoptera Species File
Genus

Aglaothorax Caudell, 1907

Type

type species by original designation of Aglaothorax Caudell, 1907

Nomenclature (17)

  • Aglaothorax Caudell, 1907: 290.

    type species by original designation Tropizaspis ovata Scudder, 1899

  • Aglaothorax Caudell, 1907 in Caudell, 1908: 9.
  • Aglaothorax Caudell, 1907 in Cole, Weissman, Lightfoot, Ueshima & Warchalowska-Sliwa, 2025: 12.
  • Aglaothorax Caudell, 1907 (classified as Nedubinae Gorochov, 1988) in Cole, Bailey, Weissman & Warchalowska-Sliwa, 2026: 357.

References (16)

  • Caudell, A.N. (1907) The Decticinae (a group of Orthoptera) of North America. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 32, 285–410. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/53434#page/363/mode/1up
  • Caudell, A.N. (1908) Orthoptera Fam. Locustidae. Subfam. Decticinae. In Genera Insectorum. P. Wytsman [Ed.]. V. Verteneuil & L. Desmet, Bruxelles. Vol. 72, 1–43 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/105244#page/339/mode/1up
  • Pemberton, C.E. (1911) Stridulation of the shield-backed grasshoppers of the genera Neduba and Aglaothorax. Psyche, a Journal of Entomology, 18, 82–83, Pl. 11. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/43955#page/118/mode/1up
  • Tinkham, E.R. (1944) Biological, taxonomic and faunistic studies on the shield-backed katydids of the North American deserts. The American Midland Naturalist, 31(2), 257–328. Available at http://entnemdept.ifas.ufl.edu/walker/Buzz/s104lt44.pdf
  • Rentz, D.C.F. & Birchim, J.D. (1968) Revisionary studies in the Nearctic Decticinae. Memoirs of the Pacific Coast Entomological Society, 3, 1–173. Available at http://entnemdept.ifas.ufl.edu/walker/Buzz/s104lrb68.pdf
  • Tinkham, E.R. (1973) Nearctic desert Decticidae (Orthop.). Part III The true tympanum in certain genera. With key. The Great Basin Naturalist, 33(3), 197–204. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/35759#page/215/mode/1up
  • Rentz, D.C.F. & Weissman, D.B. (1981) Faunal affinities, systematics, and bionomics of the Orthoptera of the California Channel Islands. University of California Publications in Entomology, 94, vii-xiii, 1–240. Available at https://orthsoc.org/sina/i00lrw81.pdf
  • Gorochov, A.V. (1988) Classification and phylogeny of Tettigonioidea (Gryllida=Orthoptera, Tettigonioidea) [in Russian]. In Cretaceous Biocoenotic Crisis and the Evolution of Insects. Nauka, Moscow. pp. 145–190. Available at http://paleoentomology.ru/publ/books/crisis-1988.pdf
  • Rentz, D.C.F. (1988) The shield-backed katydids of Southern Africa: their taxonomy, ecology and relationships to the faunas of Australia and S. America (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Tettigoniinae). Invertebrate Taxonomy, 2(2), 223–335.
  • Gorochov, A.V. (1995) System and evolution of the suborder Ensifera (Orthoptera). Part I. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 260, 1–224. [in Russian]
  • Otte, D. (1997) Orthoptera Species File 7. Tettigonioidea. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 373 pp.
  • Cole, J.A. (2010) Clinal variation explains taxonomic discrepancy in the calling songs of shield-back katydids (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Tettigoniinae: Aglaothorax). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 101(4), 910–921.
  • Lightfoot, D.C., Weissman, D.B. & Ueshima, N. (2011) Phymonotus jacintotopos: A new genus and species of shield-backed katydid (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Tettigoniinae: Nedubini) from the San Jacinto Mountains of California, USA. Zootaxa, 2937, 49–65.
  • Cole, J.A., Weissman, D.B., Lightfoot, D.C., Ueshima, N., Warchalowska-Sliwa, E., Maryańska-Nadachowska, A. & Chatfield-Taylor, W. (2021) A revision of the shield-back katydid genus Neduba (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Tettigoniinae: Nedubini). Zootaxa, 4910(1), 1–92.
  • Cole, J.A., Weissman, D.B., Lightfoot, D.C., Ueshima, N. & Warchalowska-Sliwa, E. (2025) A revision of the shield-backed katydid genus Aglaothorax (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Tettigoniinae: Nedubini). Zootaxa, 5667(1), 1–104. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5667.1.1
  • Cole, J.A., Bailey, J., Weissman, D.B. & Warchalowska-Sliwa, E. (2026) Phymonotus glyphopyrenos sp. nov. (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae, Nedubinae): a new California high elevation mountain endemic katydid with a built-in amplifier. Zootaxa, 5802(2), 347–363. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5802.2.7

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

From Greek αγλαός, brilliant or shining, and θώρᾱξ, thorax, presumably in reference to the greatly enlarged, shield-like, and in the type species, strikingly colored pronotum.

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Genus1023
Superspecies3036
Species2504065