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Orthoptera Species File
Superfamily

Tetrigoidea Rambur, 1838

pygmy grasshoppers; Dornschrecken

Type

type genus of Tetrigoidea Rambur, 1838

Nomenclature (26)

  • Tetrigoidea Rambur, 1838

    type genus Tetrix Latreille, 1802

  • Tetrigoidea Rambur, 1838 in Günther, 1956
  • Tetrigoidea Rambur, 1838 in Deng, 2016: 9.
  • Tetrigoidea Rambur, 1838 in Li, Dong & Lin, 2025: 116. Phylogeny or classification

References (26)

  • Rambur (1838) Orthoptères. In Faune entomologique de l’Andalousie. Vol. 2, 12–94 pp. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=d54-AAAAcAAJ
  • 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.
  • Sharov, A.G. (1968) Filogniya orthopteroidnykh nasekomykh [1971 English translation: Phylogeny of the Orthopteroidea]. Trudy Paleontologieskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR, 118, 1–216.
  • Harz, K. (1975) Die Orthopteren Europas II. Series Entomologica, 11, 1–939.
  • 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
  • Balderson, J. & Yin, X.-C. (1987) Grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Tetrigoidea and Acridoidea) collected in Nepal. Entomologist's Gazette, 38, 269–299.
  • Zheng, Z.-M., Wan, L., Ren, G.-D., Wu, X., Lian, Z., Zhou, J. & Yang, R. (1992) Grasshopper Fauna of Ningxia. Shaanxi Normal University Press, Xian, Shaanxi, 1–147 pp.
  • 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.
  • Chen, Y. (1997) Elementary introduction of tetrigid, eumastacid and acridid. Entomological Knowledge, 34(4), 237–238.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Defaut, B. (2001) La détermination des Orthoptères de France. Bedeilhac, 85 pp.
  • Liang, G.-qiu (2002) Orthoptera: Tetrigoidea. In Forest insects of Hainan. National Natural Science Foundation of China, Beijing. pp. 92–99.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Chen, Y.-Q., Li, Q. & Wang, S. (2011) Diversity of Tetrigoidea insects in Lac-Plantation-Farmland ecosystem. Scientia Silvae Sinicae, 47(9), 100–107.
  • Cadena-Castañeda, O.J. & Cardona-Granda, J.M. (2015) Introducción a los Saltamontes de Colombia (Orthoptera: Caelifera: Acrididea: Acridomorpha, Tetrigoidea & Tridactyloidea). 1–534 pp.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Deng, W.-A. (2016) Taxonomic study of Tetrigoidea from China. Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 341 pp.
  • Zhang, R., Zhou, S.-Y. & 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
  • 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

Descendants and synonyms

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Superfamily1001
Family1001
Subfamily1001929
Tribe3712765
Subtribe3025
Infratribe1001
Genus31811150479
Subgenus1001222
Superspecies300131
Species20531520304098
Subspecies490149198