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Genus

Criotettix Bolívar, 1887

Type

type species by subsequent designation of Criotettix Bolívar, 1887

Nomenclature (38)

  • Criotettix Bolívar, 1887: 184, 193, 222.

    type species by subsequent designation Acrydium bispinosum Dalman, 1818 in Rehn, 1904

  • Criotettix Bolívar, 1887 in Bolívar, 1902: 581.
  • Criotettix Bolívar, 1887 in Thasnim, Bijoy & Bhaskar, 2026: 105.
  • Criotettix Bolívar, 1887 (classified as Criotettiginae Kevan, 1966) in Tumbrinck, 2026: 409.

References (38)

  • 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
  • Bolívar, I. (1902) Les Orthoptères de St. Joseph's College, à Trichinopoly (Sud de l'Inde). 3me partie. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, 70, 580–635, pl. 9. [1901] Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/38238#page/596/mode/1up
  • Rehn, J.A.G. (1904) Studies in the orthopterous subfamilies Acrydiinae (Tettiginae), Eumastacinae and Proscopinae. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 56, 658–683. [1905] Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/30096
  • Jacobson, G.G. (1905) Orthoptera. In Orthopteroid and Pseudoneuropteroid Insects of Russian Empire and adjacent countries. Devrien Publ., St. Petersburg. pp. 6–466. [1902]
  • 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. (1914) Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Orthoptera (Acrididae). London, 276 pp. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/orthopteraacridi00kirbiala
  • Hancock, J.L. (1915) V. Indian Tetriginae (Acrydiinae). Records of the Indian Museum, 11, 55–137. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/41760#page/91/mode/1up
  • Rehn, J.A.G. (1930) Studies in the African Acrydiinae (Orthoptera, Acrididae) Part 1. Sections Cladonotae, Scelimenae and Metrodorae. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 82, 91–137.
  • Willemse, C.J.M. (1930) Fauna Sumatrensis (Bijdrage Nr. 62) Preliminary revision of the Acrididae (Orthoptera). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, 73, 1–210. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/89680#page/125/mode/1up
  • Günther, K. (1938) Revision der Acrydiinae (Orth.) II. Scelimenae spuriae. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung, 99, 117–148, 161–230. Available at http://www.zobodat.at/pdf/Entomologische-Zeitung-Stettin_99_0161-0230.pdf
  • Bey-Bienko, G.Y. & Mistshenko, L. (1951) Keys to the Fauna of the U.S.S.R. [1964 English translation no. 40]. In Locusts and Grasshoppers of the U.S.S.R. and Adjacent Countries. Zoological Inst. of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences, Moscow/Leningrad. Vol. 2, 385–667 [1–291]. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/224097#page/7/mode/1up
  • Steinmann, H. (1962) The Tetrigidae of Africa (Orthoptera). Folia Entomologica Hungarica, 15, 303–326.
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1966) Some Orthoptera-Caelifera from the Philippine, Bismarck and Solomon Islands, with a few interesting records from New Guinea and the Moluccas. Entomologiske Meddelelser, 34, 375–420. Available at https://danbif.dk/research-files/litteratur/entomologiske-meddelelser/bind-34/kevan__d._k._m._1966.pdf
  • Yin, X.-C. (1984) Grasshoppers and locusts from Qinghai-Xizang Plateau of China. Science Press, Beijing, 1–287 pp.
  • Shishodia, M.S. (1991) Taxonomy and zoogeography of the Tetrigidae (Orthoptera: Tetrigoidea) of north eastern India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Miscellaneous Publication, Occasional Paper, 140, 1–204. Available at http://faunaofindia.nic.in/PDFVolumes/occpapers/140/index.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.
  • Ichikawa, A. (1994) A revision of the family Tetrigidae (Orthoptera) of the Ryukyu Islands, southern Japan, with descriptions of new species and subspecies. (Part 1). Japanese Journal of Entomology, 62(3), 457–474.
  • Shishodia, M.S. (1995) Insecta: Orthoptera: Tetrigoidea. State Fauna Series 4 Fauna of Meghalaya, 3, 165–208. Available at http://faunaofindia.nic.in/PDFVolumes/sfs/021/index.pdf
  • 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.
  • Jiang, G. & Zheng, Z.-M. (1998) Grasshoppers and Locusts from Guangxi. Guangxi Normal University, 390 pp.
  • Liang, G.-qiu & Zheng, Z.-M. (1998) Orthoptera Tetrigoidea. Fauna Sinica, Insecta, 12, i-x, 1–278.
  • Zheng, Z.-M. (2005) Fauna of the Tetrigoidea from Western China. Science Press, Beijing, 1–501 pp.
  • Deng, W.-A., Zheng, Z.-M. & Wei, S.-Z. (2007) Fauna of Tetrigoidea from Yunnan and Guangxi. Guangxi Science & Technology Press, Nanning, China, 1–458 pp.
  • 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
  • Wei, S.-Z., Zheng, Z.-M. & Deng, W.-A. (2007) A review of the genus Criotettix Bolivar (Orthoptera: Scelimenidae) from China. Zootaxa, 1423, 39–49.
  • Zheng, Z.-M. (2012) Key to the species of Criotettix, Coptotettix and Formosatettix from China, with descriptions of seven new species (Orthoptera: Tetrigoidea). Journal of Shangqiu Normal University, 28(6), 1–18.
  • Tan, M.K. & Kamaruddin, K.N. (2014) Orthoptera of Fraser's Hill, Peninsular Malaysia. Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum, Singapore, 88 pp. Available at http://lkcnhm.nus.edu.sg/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/app/uploads/2017/04/orthorptera_fraser%E2%80%99s_hill.pdf
  • Deng, W.-A., Zheng, Z.-M., Wei, S.-Z., Lin, M. & Lin, L.-L. (2015) Two new species of the genus Criotettix Bolivar (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae), with a key to the species of the genus from China. Neotropical Entomology, 44(4), 448–456.
  • Storozhenko, S.Y., Kim, T. & Jeon, M.-J. (2015) Monograph of Korean Orthoptera. National Institute of Biological Resources, Incheon, 377 pp.
  • Deng, W.-A. (2016) Taxonomic study of Tetrigoidea from China. Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 341 pp.
  • Gupta, S.K. & Chandra, K. (2018) Two new species of the genus Criotettix Bolivar, 1887 (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae: Scelimeninae) from India. Zootaxa, 4375(1), 143–150.
  • Deng, W.-A., Chen, D.-N., Sheng, Q., Zhao, C.-L. & Wu, F.-P. (2019) An annotated catalogue of the pygmy grasshoppers of the genus Criotettix Bolívar, 1887 (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae) with two new Criotettix species from China. Zootaxa, 4629(4), 498–518.
  • Adžić, K., Deranja, M., Franjević, D. & Skejo, J. (2020) Are Scelimeninae (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae) monophyletic and why it remains a question. Entomological News, 129(2), 128–146.
  • Deng, W.-A. (2021) New species and new synonyms of Criotettix and Eucriotettix from China (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae) with an updated key. Oriental Insects, 55(4), 447–474.
  • Subedi, M. & Kasalo, N. (2023) Aryalidonta itishreea, a new genus and species of Thoradontini (Orthoptera, Tetrigidae) from Nepal honors the Emperor of Laughter. Journal of Orthoptera Research, 32(1), 63–80. Available at http://jor.pensoft.net/article/94918/
  • Thasnim, E.S., Bijoy, C. & Bhaskar, D. (2026) Pygmy grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Tetrigidae) of Kole wetlands, a Ramsar site in Kerala, India. Journal of Orthoptera Research, 35(1), 103–115. https://doi.org/10.3897/jor.35.152281
  • Tumbrinck, J. (2026) Review of all Tetrigidae species described from 1758 to 1886. Zootaxa, 5845(3), 401–455. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5845.3.1

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
Genus1001
Species4204486