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Orthoptera Species File
genus

Ellipes Scudder, 1902

Type

Tridactylus minutus Scudder, 1862 type species by original monotypy of Ellipes Scudder, 1902

Nomenclature (14)

  • Ellipes Scudder, 1902: 309.

    type species by original monotypy Tridactylus minutus Scudder, 1862

  • Ellipes Scudder, 1902 in Kirby, 1906: 11.
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  • Ellipes Scudder, 1902 in Cadena-Castañeda & Cardona-Granda, 2015: 487-490.
  • Ellipes Scudder, 1902 in Woo, 2025: 459.

Nomenclature references (14)

  • Bruner, L. (1916) South American crickets, Gryllotalpoidea and Achetoidea. Annals of the Carnegie Museum, 10, 344–428. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/38133
  • Cadena-Castañeda, O.J. & Cardona-Granda, J.M. (2015) Introducción a los Saltamontes de Colombia (Orthoptera: Caelifera: Acrididea: Acridomorpha, Tetrigoidea & Tridactyloidea). 1–534 pp.
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  • Elgueta, M., Camousseight, A. & Carbonell, C.S. (1999) Catálogo de Orthoptera (Insecta) de Chile. Publicación ocasional - Museo Nacional de Historia Natural (Chile), 54, 1–60. Available at http://publicaciones.mnhn.gob.cl/668/articles-71109_archivo_01.pdf
  • Günther, K.K. (1972) Die Tridactyloidea von Uruguay (Orthopteroidea, Saltatoria). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, 19(1-3), 211–236.
  • Günther, K.K. (1977) Revision der Gattung Ellipes Scudder, 1902. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, 24(1-3), 47–122.
  • Günther, K.K. (1979) Einige Bemerkungen über die Gattungen der Familie Tridactylidae Brunner und zur Klassifikation der Tridactylodea (Orthopteroida, Caelifera). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, 26(4-5), 255–264.
  • Günther, K.K. (1980) Katalog der Caelifera-Unterordnung Tridactyloidea (Insecta). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, 27(1-3), 149–178.
  • Günther, K.K. (1994) Die Tridactyloidea-Fauna Kolumbiens (Orthoptera, Caelifera). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, 41(1), 1–56.
  • Kirby, W.F. (1906) Orthoptera Saltatoria. Part I. (Achetidae et Phasgonuridae). In A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae). British Museum (Natural History), London. Vol. 2, i-viii, 1–562. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/29662
  • Otte, D. (1997) Orthoptera Species File 6. Tetrigoidea and Tridactyloidea (Orthoptera: Caelifera) and Addenda to OSF Vols. 1-5. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 261 pp.
  • Scudder, S.H. (1902) On the United States Orthoptera which have been referred to the genus Tridactylus. Psyche, a Journal of Entomology, 9(310), 308–310. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/42922#page/326/mode/1up
  • Sharov, A.G. (1968) Filogniya orthopteroidnykh nasekomykh [1971 English translation: Phylogeny of the Orthopteroidea]. Trudy Paleontologieskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR, 118, 1–216.
  • Woo, B. (2025) The pygmy mole crickets (Orthoptera: Tridactylidae) of Florida, USA, with descriptions of three new species. Zootaxa, 5717(4), 451–487. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5717.4.1
  • Yin, X.-C., Shi, J. & Yin, Z. (1996) In Synonymic Catalogue of Grasshoppers and their Allies of the World (Orthoptera: Caelifera). China Forestry Publishing House, Beijing. 1266 pp.

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Greek ελλιπής meaning wanting or incomplete, a reference to the reduced hind tarsus in members of the genus.

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
genus1001
species2911141
subspecies601622