Orthoptera Species File
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.

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
Taxon Valid names
Rank Extant Fossil Invalid Total
genus1023
superspecies3036
species2503863