Skip to main content
Orthoptera Species File
Genus

Ophiotettix Walker, 1871

pygmy giraffehoppers

Type

type species by original monotypy of Ophiotettix Walker, 1871

Nomenclature (18)

  • Ophiotettix Walker, 1871: 846.

    type species by original monotypy Ophiotettix cygnicollis Walker, 1871

  • Tetricodina Westwood, 1874: 175.

    type species Tetrix limosina Snellen van Vollenhoven, 1865

  • Tettigodina Bolívar, 1887 (synonym of Ophiotettix Walker, 1871) in Tumbrinck & Skejo, 2017: 530.
  • Tetricodina Westwood, 1874 (subjective synonym of Ophiotettix Walker, 1871) in Tumbrinck & Skejo, 2017: 530.

References (12)

  • Walker, F. (1871) Catalogue of the Specimens of Dermaptera Saltatoria in the Collection of the British Museum. London, Vol. 5, 811–850 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/34094
  • Westwood, J.O. (1874) Thesaurus entomologicus Oxoniensis:: or Illustrations of new, rare and interesting insects, for the most part coloured, in the collections presented to the University of Oxford by the Rev. F.W. Hope., xxiv, 205 pp 40 pl [31 in colour]. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/14077
  • Bolívar, I. (1887) Essai sur les Acridiens de la tribu des Tettigidae. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique, 31, 175–313. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/44636#page/675/mode/1up
  • Hancock, J.L. (1907) Orthoptera Fam. Acridiidae. Subfam. Tetriginae. In Genera Insectorum. P. Wytsman [Ed.]. V. Verteneuil & L. Desmet, Bruxelles. Vol. 48, 1–79 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/105990#page/23/mode/1up
  • Kirby, W.F. (1910) A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae). British Museum (Natural History), London, Vol. 3, Issue 2, 674 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/29660
  • Bolívar, C. (1929) Estudio monográfico del género Ophiotettix Walker (Orth., Acrd.). Memorias de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural, 15, 879–892. Available at http://bibdigital.rjb.csic.es/spa/Libro.php?Libro=1411
  • Günther, K. (1939) Revision der Acrydiinae (Orthoptera), III. Sectio Amorphopi (Metrodorae Bol. 1887, aut.). Abhandlungen und Berichte aus den Staatlichen Museen für Tierkunde und Völkerkunde in Dresden (Ser. A: Zool.) (N.F.), 20 (NF Bd.1), 16–335.
  • Steinmann, H. (1970) The Tetricidae (Orthoptera) of the Notogea. Opusc. Zool. Budapest, 10, 155–164. Available at http://opuscula.elte.hu/PDF/Opuscula10_1_1970/Steinmann,%20H_10_1_11.pdf
  • Blackith, R.E. (1992) Tetrigidae (Insecta; Orthoptera) of Southeast Asia: Annotated catalogue with partial translated keys and bibliography. JAPAGA, Wicklow, Ireland, i-liv, 1–248.
  • 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.
  • 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. & 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.

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

From Greek ὄφῐς (ophis, meaning snake or serpent), referring to elongated head, and τέττιξ (tettix, meaning grasshopper or cicada).

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Genus1023
Superspecies120012
Species4001858