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Orthoptera Species File
Genus

Leiotettix Bruner, 1906

Type

type species by original designation of Leiotettix Bruner, 1906

Nomenclature (13)

  • Leiotettix Bruner, 1906: 684.

    type species by original designation Leiotettix viridis Bruner, 1906

  • Leiotettix Bruner, 1906 in Rehn, 1907
  • Leiotettix Bruner, 1906 in Dinghi, Confalonieri & Cigliano, 2009
  • Leiotettix Bruner, 1906 in Scattolini, Lira Noriega, Confalonieri, Pietrokovsky & Cigliano, 2020: 423, 424.

References (13)

  • Amédégnato, C. (1974) Les genres d'acridiens neotropicaux, leur classification par familles, sous-familles et tribus. Acrida, 3(3), 193–204.
  • Bruner, L. (1906) Synoptic list of Paraguayan Acrididae, or locusts, with descriptions of new forms. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 30(1461), 613–694. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/53722#page/711/mode/1up
  • Cigliano, M.M. & Ronderos, R.A. (1994) Revision of the South American grasshopper genera Leiotettix Bruner and Scotussa Giglio-Tos (Orthoptera, Acrididae, Melanoplinae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 120(2), 145–180.
  • Cigliano, M.M. (1997) Ronderosia, a new genus of South American Melanoplinae (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Journal of Orthoptera Research, 6, 1–19.
  • Cigliano, M.M., Ronderos, R.A. & Kemp, W.P. (1996) Phylogenetic relationships of Scotussa and Leiotettix (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Cladistics, 12(2), 125–138.
  • Dinghi, P.A., Confalonieri, V.A. & Cigliano, M.M. (2009) Phylogenetic studies in the South American tribe Dichroplini (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Melanoplinae): is the Paranaense-Pampeano informal genus group a natural clade? Zootaxa, 2174, 51–62.
  • Liebermann, J. (1944) Sobre las expecies argentino-paraguayas del género Leiotettix Bruner, con la descripción de L. eduardgaldosi especie nueva (Orth., Acrid., Cyrtacanth.). Anales de la Sociedad Científica Argentina, 138(4), 162–168. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/192676#page/198/mode/1up
  • Liebermann, J. (1967) Lista alfabética preliminar de las tucuras de la tribu Dichroplini de la región neotropical (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina, 30(1-4), 27–36. Available at http://www.biotaxa.org/RSEA/article/view/42296
  • Otte, D. (1995) Orthoptera Species File 4. Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] C. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 518 pp.
  • Rehn, J.A.G. (1907) Orthoptera of the families Tettigoniidae and Gryllidae from Sapucay, Paraguay. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 59(2), 370–395. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/79427#page/378/mode/1up
  • Ronderos, R.A. (1985) Consideraciones sobre la biogeografía de los Melanoplinae en Sudamérica (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Proceedings, Triennial Meeting Pan-American Acridological Society, 3, 53–54.
  • Scattolini, M.C., Lira Noriega, A., Confalonieri, V.A., Pietrokovsky, S. & Cigliano, M.M. (2020) Biogeographical patterns and processes in the genus group Scotussae (Acrididae: Melanoplinae): an integrative approach. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 131(2), 417–433.
  • 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.

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

From Greek λείος = smooth sleek, relating to the glabrous body surface, and τέττιξ = grasshopper or cicada.

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Genus1001
Species6028