superfamily

Tetrigoidea Rambur, 1838

pygmy grasshoppers; Dornschrecken

Overview

Type

Tetrix Latreille, 1802 type genus of Tetrigoidea Rambur, 1838

Nomenclature (26)

Tetrigoidea Rambur, 1838
type genus Tetrix Latreille, 1802
Tetrigoidea Rambur, 1838 in Günther, 1956
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Tetrigoidea Rambur, 1838 in Deng, 2016: 9.
Tetrigoidea Rambur, 1838 in Li, Dong & Lin, 2025: 116. Phylogeny or classification

Nomenclature references (26)

Balderson, J. & Yin, X.-C. (1987) Grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Tetrigoidea and Acridoidea) collected in Nepal. Entomologist's Gazette, 38, 269–299.
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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Chen, Y. (1997) Elementary introduction of tetrigid, eumastacid and acridid. Entomological Knowledge, 34(4), 237–238.

Chen, Y.-Q., Li, Q. & Wang, S. (2011) Diversity of Tetrigoidea insects in Lac-Plantation-Farmland ecosystem. Scientia Silvae Sinicae, 47(9), 100–107.

Defaut, B. & Morichon, D. (2015) Criquets de France (Orthoptera, Caelifera). In Faune de France. Fédération Française des Sociétés de Sciences Naturelles, Paris. Vol. 97, Issue 1a,b, 695 pp. + XXI plates.

Defaut, B. (2001) In La détermination des Orthoptères de France. Bedeilhac. 85 pp.

Deng, W.-A. (2016) In Taxonomic study of Tetrigoidea from China. Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan. 341 pp.

Günther, K. (1956) Orthoptera Tetrigoidea. In South African Animal Life: Results of the Lund University Expedition in 1950-1951. Almqvist & Wiksell, Stockholm. Vol. 3, pp. 94–120, 45 figs.

Günther, K. (1968) Contribution à la faune du Congo (Brazzaville). Mission A. Villiers et A. Descarpentries. 79. Orthoptères, Tetrigoidea. Bulletin de l'Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire. Série A: Sciences Naturelles, 79, 1645–1671.

Günther, K. (1979) Die Tetrigoidea von Afrika südlich der Sahara (Orthoptera: Caelifera). Beiträge zur Entomologie, 29(1), 7–183. Available at http://www.contributions-to-entomology.org/index.php/beitraege_entomologie/article/view/1130

Harz, K. (1975) Die Orthopteren Europas II. Series Entomologica, 11, 1–939.

Jiang, G. & Liang, G.-qiu (2004) Fifty-three species of Tetrigoidea (Orthoptera) from Cenwang Mountain in the western Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, China. Entomological News, 115(4), 201–206. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/20616#page/221/mode/1up

Li, X., Dong, X. & Lin, L. (2025) New insights into the phylogeny of Tetrigoidea (Insecta, Orthoptera), with the announcement of the first mitogenome of the genus Phaesticus. ZooKeys, 1251, 115–130. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1251.154178

Liang, G.-qiu (2002) Orthoptera: Tetrigoidea. In Forest insects of Hainan. National Natural Science Foundation of China, Beijing. pp. 92–99.

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.

Rambur (1838) Orthoptères. In Faune entomologique de l’Andalousie. Vol. 2, 12–94 pp. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=d54-AAAAcAAJ

Sharov, A.G. (1968) Filogniya orthopteroidnykh nasekomykh [1971 English translation: Phylogeny of the Orthopteroidea]. Trudy Paleontologieskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR, 118, 1–216.

Song, H., Amédégnato, C., Cigliano, M.M., Desutter-Grandcolas, L., Heads, S.W., Huang, Y., Otte, D. & Whiting, M.F. (2015) 300 million years of diversification: elucidating the patterns of orthopteran evolution based on comprehensive taxon and gene sampling. Cladistics, 31, 621–651.

Zhang, R., Zhou, S. & Deng, W.-A. (2016) Morphometrics analysis on the hind wing of Tetrigides (Orthoptera) and its application in taxonomy. Entomotaxonomia, 38(3), 175–183. Available at http://xbkcflxb.alljournal.net/xbkcflxben/ch/reader/view_abstract.aspx?file_no=2016024&flag=1

Zheng, Z.-M. & Ou, X.-H. (2010) The pygmy grasshoppers and four new species of Tetrigoidea (Orthoptera) from Yulongxueshan region in northwestern Yunnan. Entomotaxonomia, 32(1), 1–12.

Zheng, Z.-M. (1993) Tetrigoidea. In Animals of Longqi Mountain. China Forestry Publishing House, China. pp. 70–83.

Zheng, Z.-M. (1995) Orthoptera: Acridoidea, Eumastacoidea and Tetrigoidea. In Insects and macrofungi of Gutianshan, Zhejiang. Zhejiang Science and Technology Publishing House, Hangzhou. pp. 25–29.

Zheng, Z.-M. (1998) A study of Tetrigoidea from Xishuangbanna (Orthoptera). Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica, 23(2), 161–184.

Zheng, Z.-M. (1999) Orthoptera: Tetrigoidea. In Fauna of Insects Fujian Province of China. Vol. 1. Fujian Science and Technology Press, Fuzhou. pp. 184–213.

Zheng, Z.-M., Wan, L., Ren, G.-D., Wu, X., Lian, Z., Zhou, J. & Yang, R. (1992) In Grasshopper Fauna of Ningxia. Shaanxi Normal University Press, Xian, Shaanxi. 1–147 pp.
Zhong, Y., Xu, H., Lei, G. & Zheng, Z.-M. (2002) Studies on the Tetrigoidea and Eumastacoidea of Hubei Province. Journal of central China Normal University (Natural Sciences), 36(4), Sum 104, 508–511.

Descendants and synonyms

Stats

	Valid names
Rank	Extant	Fossil	Invalid	Total
superfamily	1	0	0	1
family	1	0	0	1
subfamily	10	0	19	29
tribe	37	1	27	65
subtribe	3	0	2	5
infratribe	1	0	0	1
genus	317	10	140	467
subgenus	11	0	12	23
superspecies	30	0	1	31
species	2045	15	1945	4005
subspecies	59	0	164	223