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Orthoptera Species File
Tribe

Xerophyllini Günther, 1979

Type

type genus of Xerophyllini Günther, 1979

Nomenclature (12)

  • Xerophyllini Günther, 1979: 17.

    type genus Xerophyllum Fairmaire, 1846

  • Acmophyllini Günther, 1979: 24, 27.

    type genus Acmophyllum Karsch, 1890

  • Xerophyllini Günther, 1979 in Deranja, Kasalo, Adžić, Franjević & Skejo, 2022: 4.
  • Xerophyllini Günther, 1979 (classified as Cladonotinae Bolívar, 1887) in Fite, Devriese, Kulanek, Skejo, Kasalo, Misganaw, Tefera, Villinger & Husemann, 2025: 8.

References (8)

  • 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
  • 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.
  • Devriese, H. (1999) Révision des Xerophyllini d'Afrique (Orthoptera Tetrigidae). Belgian Journal of Entomology, 1, 21–99. Available at http://www.srbe-kbve.be/cm/sites/default/files/publications/BJE/BJE%201999/BJE%201999%20vol%201%20%281%29%20Devriese.pdf
  • Storozhenko, S.Y. & Paik, J. (2011) Review of the genus Bidentatettix (Zheng, 1992) (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae, Cladonotinae). Korean Journal of Soil Zoology, 15(1-2), 48–52.
  • Bhaskar, D., Stermšek, S., Easa, P.S., Franjević, D. & Skejo, J. (2020) Wide-nosed pygmy grasshoppers (Cladonotinae: Cladonotini, Xerophyllini) of India and Sri Lanka: catalogue with an identification key and description of a new species of the genus Tettilobus. Zootaxa, 4894(3), 474–500.
  • Tumbrinck, J., Deranja, M., Adžić, K., Pavlović, M. & Skejo, J. (2020) Cockscomb-shaped twighopper, Cladonotus bhaskari sp. n., a new and rare pygmy grasshopper species from Sri Lanka (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae: Cladonotinae). Zootaxa, 4821(2), 333–342.
  • Deranja, M., Kasalo, N., Adžić, K., Franjević, D. & Skejo, J. (2022) Lepocranus and Valalyllum gen. nov. (Orthoptera, Tetrigidae, Cladonotinae), endangered Malagasy dead-leaf-like grasshoppers. ZooKeys, 1109, 1–15. Available at http://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/85565/
  • Fite, T., Devriese, H., Kulanek, D., Skejo, J., Kasalo, N., Misganaw, M., Tefera, T., Villinger, J. & Husemann, M. (2025) Tetrigidae of Ethiopia: First species delimitation via DNA barcoding and description of three new species. Taxonomy, 5(49), 1–24. https://doi.org/10.3390/taxonomy5030049

Descendants and synonyms

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Tribe1012
Infratribe1001
Genus200323
Species60053113
Subspecies801927