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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.

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genus1001
species2911141
subspecies601622