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Genus

Lophotettix Hancock, 1909

Type

type species by original designation of Lophotettix Hancock, 1909

Nomenclature (11)

  • Lophotettix Hancock, 1909: 388.

    type species by original designation Lophotettix brevicristatus Hancock, 1909

  • Lophotettix Hancock, 1909 in Hancock, 1914: 328.
  • Lophotettix Hancock, 1909 in Kasalo, Janzen, Hallwachs, Brown, Husemann, Vielsäcker, Domazet-Lošo, Franjević, Subedi, Bogić & Skejo, 2025: 11.
  • Lophotettix Hancock, 1909 in Kasalo, Husemann, Vielsäcker, van de Kamp, Subedi & Skejo, 2025: 356.

References (11)

  • 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
  • Hancock, J.L. (1914) Some corrections in names of South American Tetriginae. Entomological News, 25, 328. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/20329
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Kasalo, N., Bertner, P., Aznar González de Rueda, J. & Skejo, J. (2022) The true nature of the genus Lophotettix Hancock, 1909 (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae): a brief taxonomic revision. Annales Zoologici, Warszaw, 72(2), 223–234.
  • Itrac-Bruneau, R. & Doucet, G. (2023) Apport des collections du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle et de Didier Morin à la connaissance des Batrachideinae et Lophotettiginae (Orthoptera, Tetrigidae) de Guyane. Zoosystema, 45(20), 601–634. Available at https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques/zoosystema/45/20
  • Kasalo, N., Naskrecki, P., Rebrina, F. & Skejo, J. (2023) Central American Tetrigidae Rambur, 1838 (Orthoptera): a preliminary catalogue. Zoosystema, 45(7), 176–212. Available at http://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques/zoosystema/45/7
  • Kasalo, N., Janzen, D.H., Hallwachs, W., Brown, A., Husemann, M., Vielsäcker, M., Domazet-Lošo, T., Franjević, D., Subedi, M., Bogić, D. & Skejo, J. (2025) Integrative taxonomy of Costa Rican Tetrigidae (Orthoptera) reveals eight new species. Diversity, 17(3, 190), 1–34. https://doi.org/10.3390/d17030190
  • Kasalo, N., Husemann, M., Vielsäcker, M., van de Kamp, T., Subedi, M. & Skejo, J. (2025) Lophotettix verhaaghi (Orthoptera, Tetrigidae), a new species of pygmy grasshoppers from Peru with a 3D scan of the holotype. Contributions to Entomology, 75(2), 355–360. https://doi.org/10.3897/contrib.entomol.75.e170564

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
Genus1001
Subgenus2024
Species601420