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Subfamily

Metrodorinae Bolívar, 1887

Type

type genus of Metrodorinae Bolívar, 1887

Nomenclature (44)

  • Metrodorinae Bolívar, 1887

    type genus Metrodora Bolívar, 1887

  • Metrodorae Bolívar, 1887: 185. (not Latin)

    type genus Metrodora Bolívar, 1887

  • Metrodorinae Bolívar, 1887 in Kasalo, Yong, Rebrina & Skejo, 2023: 187, 190.
  • Metrodorinae Bolívar, 1887 in Cadena-Castañeda, Quintana-Arias, Infante, Silva & Tavares, 2025: 9, 243.

References (40)

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  • Rehn, J.A.G. (1952) The Grasshoppers and Locusts (Acridoidea) of Australia. I. Families Tetrigidae and Eumastacidae. CSIRO, Melbourne, 1–326 pp.
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  • 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. (2005) Fauna of the Tetrigoidea from Western China. Science Press, Beijing, 1–501 pp.
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  • Mahmood, K., Idris, A.B. & Salmah, Y. (2007) Tetrigidae (Orthoptera: Tetrigoidea) from Malaysia with the description of six new species. Acta Entomologica Sinica, 50(12), 1272–1284. Available at http://www.insect.org.cn/CN/Y2007/V50/I12/1272
  • Zheng, Z.-M., Zhang, H.-hong & Dang, L.-hong (2009) Two new species of Metrodoridae (Orthoptera) from Hainan and Guangxi. Entomotaxonomia, 31(1), 1–5.
  • Pavón-Gonzalo, P., Manzanilla, J. & García-París, M. (2012) Taxonomy and morphological characterization of Allotettix simoni (Bolívar, 1890) and implications for the systematics of Metrodorinae (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 164(1), 52–70.
  • Zheng, Z.-M. & Ou, X.-H. (2012) Two new species of Metrodoridae (Orthoptera) from the Nujiang Gorge, Yunnan, China. Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica, 37(3), 559–563.
  • 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.
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  • Silva, D.S.M., Skejo, J., Pereira, M.R., de Domenico, F.C. & Sperber, C.F. (2017) Comments on the recent changes in taxonomy of pygmy unicorns, with description of a new species of Metopomystrum from Brazil (Insecta, Tetrigidae, Cleostratini, Miriatrini). ZooKeys, 702, 1–18. Available at http://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/13981/
  • Tumbrinck, J. & Skejo, J. (2017) Taxonomic and biogeographic revision of the New Guinean genus Ophiotettix Walker, 1871 (Tetrigidae: Metrodorinae: Ophiotettigini trib. nov.), with the descriptions of 33 new species. In Biodiversity, Biogeography and Nature Conservation in Wallacea and New Guinea. Entomological Society of Latvia, Ed. Dmitry Telnov. Vol. 3, 525–580 pp.
  • Deng, W.-A., Wei, S.-Z., Xin, L. & Chen, Y.-Z. (2018) Taxonomic revision of the genus Bolivaritettix Günther, 1939 (Orthoptera: Tetrigoidea: Metrodorinae) from China, with the descriptions of two new species. Zootaxa, 4434(2), 303–326.
  • Lu, X.-Y. & Deng, W.-A. (2021) New genus and new species of the subfamily Metrodorinae from China (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae). Zootaxa, 4964(2), 345–362.
  • Bhaskar, D., Sankararaman, H. & Kasalo, N. (2022) Dravidacris annamalaica gen. et sp. nov. a new pygmy unicorn grasshopper (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae) from South India. Zootaxa, 5196(3), 420–432.
  • 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
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  • Cadena-Castañeda, O.J., Quintana-Arias, R.F., Infante, I.C., Silva, D.S.M. & Tavares, G.C. (2025) Studies on pygmy grasshoppers: On the current Metrodorinae sensu lato classification (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae) with emphasis on American and Malagasy taxa. Zootaxa, 5597(1), 1–265. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5597.1.1

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
Subfamily1023
Tribe80412
Subtribe3025
Genus78233113
Subgenus2046
Superspecies120012
Species3043186493