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genus

Aglaothorax Caudell, 1907

Type

Tropizaspis ovata Scudder, 1899 type species by original designation of Aglaothorax Caudell, 1907

Nomenclature (15)

  • Aglaothorax Caudell, 1907: 290.

    type species by original designation Tropizaspis ovata Scudder, 1899

  • Aglaothorax Caudell, 1907 in Caudell, 1908: 9.
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  • Aglaothorax Caudell, 1907 in Cole, Weissman, Lightfoot, Ueshima, Warchalowska-Sliwa, Maryańska-Nadachowska & Chatfield-Taylor, 2021
  • Aglaothorax Caudell, 1907 in Cole, Weissman, Lightfoot, Ueshima & Warchalowska-Sliwa, 2025: 12.

Nomenclature references (14)

  • 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
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  • 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.
  • 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., 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.
  • 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
  • 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]
  • 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.
  • Otte, D. (1997) Orthoptera Species File 7. Tettigonioidea. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 373 pp.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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

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.

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superspecies3036
species2503863