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Orthoptera Species File
Genus

Ellipes Scudder, 1902

Type

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

References (14)

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Sharov, A.G. (1968) Filogniya orthopteroidnykh nasekomykh [1971 English translation: Phylogeny of the Orthopteroidea]. Trudy Paleontologieskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR, 118, 1–216.
  • 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.
  • Yin, X.-C., Shi, J. & Yin, Z. (1996) Synonymic Catalogue of Grasshoppers and their Allies of the World (Orthoptera: Caelifera). China Forestry Publishing House, Beijing, 1266 pp.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Cadena-Castañeda, O.J. & Cardona-Granda, J.M. (2015) Introducción a los Saltamontes de Colombia (Orthoptera: Caelifera: Acrididea: Acridomorpha, Tetrigoidea & Tridactyloidea). 1–534 pp.
  • 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

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.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Genus1001
Species2911141
Subspecies601622