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Orthoptera Species File
Subfamily

Lophotettiginae Hancock, 1909

Type

type genus of Lophotettiginae Hancock, 1909

Nomenclature (12)

  • Lophotettiginae Hancock, 1909

    type genus Lophotettix Hancock, 1909

  • Lophotettigiae Hancock, 1909: 387.

    type genus Lophotettix Hancock, 1909

  • Lophotettiginae Hancock, 1909 in Kasalo, Husemann, van de Kamp & Skejo, 2024: 120.
  • Lophotettiginae Hancock, 1909 in Cadena-Castañeda, García García & Tavares, 2026

References (10)

  • Hancock, J.L. (1909) Further studies of the Tetriginae (Orthoptera) in the Oxford University Museum. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 387–426, pl. 22. [1908] Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/51002#page/693/mode/1up
  • Günther, K. (1938) Revision der Acrydiinae, I. Sectiones Tripetalocerae, Discotettigiae, Lophotettigiae, Cleostrateae, Bufonidae, Cladonotae, Scelimenae verae. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin, 23, 299–437.
  • Steinmann, H. (1969) The Tetricidae of the Neogaea. Folia Entomologica Hungarica, 22(19), 383–404.
  • 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.
  • Tumbrinck, J. (2014) Taxonomic revision of the Cladonotinae (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae) from the islands of South-East Asia and from Australia, with general remarks to the classification and morphology of the Tetrigidae and descriptions of new genera and species from New Guinea and New Caledonia. In Biodiversity, Biogeography and Nature Conservation in Wallacea and New Guinea. Entomological Society of Latvia, Ed. Dmitry Telnov. Vol. 2, 345–396 (plates 64–91).
  • Cadena-Castañeda, O.J. & Cardona-Granda, J.M. (2015) Introducción a los Saltamontes de Colombia (Orthoptera: Caelifera: Acrididea: Acridomorpha, Tetrigoidea & Tridactyloidea). 1–534 pp.
  • Silva, D.S.M., Cadena-Castañeda, O.J., Pereira, M.R., de Domenico, F.C. & Sperber, C.F. (2019) Review of Lophotettix, the sole member of the subfamily Lophotettiginae Hancock, 1909 (Insecta: Orthoptera: Caelifera: Tetrigidae). Zootaxa, 4686(3), 346–360.
  • Cadena-Castañeda, O.J., Arango Díaz, C.J., Silva, D.S.M., Buitrago, O., García García, A. & Tumbrinck, J. (2021) Review of the status of the genus Phelene stat. resurr. (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae: Lophotettiginae) and description of a new species. Zootaxa, 4980(2), 355–365.
  • Kasalo, N., Husemann, M., van de Kamp, T. & Skejo, J. (2024) Description of Phelene reinschmidti from Ecuador with notes on the subfamily Lophotettiginae (Orthoptera, Tetrigidae). Evolutionary Systematics, 8, 119–125. https://doi.org/10.3897/evolsyst.8.124285
  • Cadena-Castañeda, O.J., García García, A. & Tavares, G.C. (2026) Studies on pygmy grasshoppers: notes on the current classification of the subfamily Lophotettiginae (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae), including new taxa. International Journal of Tropical Insect Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42690-025-01656-8

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Subfamily1012
Genus3025
Subgenus2024
Species1001929