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Orthoptera Species File
Genus

Phaesticus Uvarov, 1940

Type

type species by original monotypy of Phaesticus Uvarov, 1940

Nomenclature (39)

  • Phaestus Bolívar, 1887: 190, 196, 309. (homonym)

    type species by original monotypy Tettix mellerborgi Stål, 1855

  • Phaestus Bolívar, 1887 (homonym of Phaestus Förster, 1868)
  • Phaesticus Uvarov, 1940 in Li, Dong & Lin, 2025: 117.
  • Phaesticus Uvarov, 1940 (classified as Xistrellini Skejo, Storozhenko, Tumbrinck & Kasalo, 2025) in Skejo, Kasalo, Patano, Storozhenko, Tumbrinck, Domazet-Lošo, Amoroso, Yap & Škorput, 2025: 38.

References (24)

  • 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
  • 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, I. Sectiones Tripetalocerae, Discotettigiae, Lophotettigiae, Cleostrateae, Bufonidae, Cladonotae, Scelimenae verae. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin, 23, 299–437.
  • Uvarov, B.P. (1940) Twenty-four new generic names in Orthoptera. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 6, 112–117.
  • Liang, G.-qiu & Zheng, Z.-M. (1984) A new genus and a new species of Tetrigidae from Guangdong province (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae). Acta Entomologica Sinica, 27(4), 430–432.
  • Liang, G.-qiu (1988) A new species of the genus Flatocerus from Hainan Island (Orthotpera: Tetrigidae). Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica, 13(1), 65–66.
  • 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.
  • Otte, D. (1997) Orthoptera Species File 7. Tettigonioidea. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 373 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
  • Liang, G.-qiu, Chen, Y.-Q. & Chen, Y.-L. (2008) A new species of the genus Flatocerus (Orthoptera, Discotettigidae) from Yunnan, China. Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica, 33(1), 138–140.
  • Zheng, Z.-M., Bai, Y. & Xu, S.-Q. (2011) A new species of the genus Flatocerus Liang et Zheng from Guangdong in China (Orthoptera, Tetrigoidea, Discotettigidae). Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica, 36(3), 536–538. Available at http://www.zootax.com.cn/viewmulu_en.aspx?qi_id=656&mid=16689
  • Zheng, Z.-M., Zhang, H.-L. & Zeng, H.-H. (2011) The genus Flatocerus Liang and Zheng (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae) with description of a new species from China. Oriental Insects, 45, 80–86. Available at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00305316.2011.590630
  • Storozhenko, S.Y. & Dawwrueng, P. (2015) New and little-known pygmy grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae) from Thailand. Zootaxa, 4052(5), 527–554.
  • Deng, W.-A. (2016) Taxonomic study of Tetrigoidea from China. Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 341 pp.
  • Zha, L., Skejo, J., Mao, B.-Y. & Ding, J.-H. (2021) Taxonomic revision of Phaesticus Uvarov and synonymy with Flatocerus Liang & Zheng syn. nov. (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae). Zootaxa, 4965(3), 501–514.
  • Li, X., Dong, X. & Lin, L. (2025) New insights into the phylogeny of Tetrigoidea (Insecta, Orthoptera), with the announcement of the first mitogenome of the genus Phaesticus. ZooKeys, 1251, 115–130. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1251.154178
  • Skejo, J., Kasalo, N., Patano, R.R., Jr., Storozhenko, S.Y., Tumbrinck, J., Domazet-Lošo, T., Amoroso, V.B., Yap, S.A. & Škorput, J. (2025) Taxonomic revision of pygmy devil genera Almacris, Ginixistra, Tegotettix, and Xistra, with comments on Xistrella (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae). Taxonomy, 5(60), 1–47. https://doi.org/10.3390/taxonomy5040060

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Derived from replaced homonym Phaestus Bolívar, 1887.

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Genus1034
Species302326