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Orthoptera Species File
Genus

Velarifictorus Randell, 1964

Type

type species by original designation of Velarifictorus Randell, 1964

Nomenclature (10)

  • Velarifictorus (Velarifictorus) Randell, 1964: 1586.

    type species by original designation Scapsipedus micado Saussure, 1877

  • Velarifictorus (Velarifictorus) Randell, 1964 in Kim, 2013: 295.
  • Velarifictorus (Velarifictorus) Randell, 1964 in Zheng, Cai & Ma, 2022: 103.
  • Velarifictorus (Velarifictorus) Randell, 1964 in Meena, Swaminathan & Swaminathan, 2022: 145.

References (10)

  • Randell, R.L. (1964) The male genitalia in Gryllinae (Orthoptera: Gryllidae) and a tribal revision. The Canadian Entomologist, 96(12), 1565–1607.
  • Kim, T. (2013) A taxonomic study on the burrowing cricket genus Velarifictorus with morphologically resembled genus Lepidogryllus (Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Gryllinae) in Korea. Animal Systematics, Evolution and Diversity, 29(4), 294–307. Available at http://e-ased.org/PublishedPaper/year_abstract.asp?idx=108
  • Storozhenko, S.Y., Kim, T. & Jeon, M.-J. (2015) Monograph of Korean Orthoptera. National Institute of Biological Resources, Incheon, 377 pp.
  • Chen, G.-Y., Shen, C.-Z., Liu, Y.-F., Liao, W. & He, Z. (2018) A phylogenetic study of Chinese Velarifictorus Randell, 1964 based on COI gene with describing one new species (Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Gryllinae). Zootaxa, 4531(4), 499–506.
  • Gorochov, A.V. (2019) Preliminary hypothesis on the history of Gryllinae (Orthoptera: Gryllinae) in America and new taxa of both the subtribe Anurogryllina and the genus Megalogryllus. Amurian Zoological Journal, 11(4), 279–308. Available at http://azjournal.ru/index.php/azjournal/article/view/393/488
  • Ma, L., Qiao, M. & Zhang, T. (2019) A new species of Velarifictorus Randell, 1964 (Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Gryllnae: Modicoryllini) bearing similarities to the Landrevinae from China. Zootaxa, 4612(1), 103–108.
  • Rentz, D.C.F. & Su, Y.N. (2019) A Guide to Crickets of Australia. CSIRO Publishing, 398 pp. https://doi.org/10.1071/9781486305070
  • Cadena-Castañeda, O.J. & García García, A. (2020) Studies in Colombian Ensifera and adjacent countries: Gigagryllus, a new genus of giant field crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllidae) with comments on current Neotropical field crickets classification. Zootaxa, 4830(2), 273–290.
  • Meena, A.K., Swaminathan, R. & Swaminathan, T. (2022) First report of the female Acanthogryllus asiaticus Gorochov, 1990 (Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Gryllinae) from India and updated description of two crickets of Gryllini. Zootaxa, 5125(2), 144–156.
  • Zheng, Y., Cai, X.-R. & Ma, L. (2022) Taxonomy of Landrevus species group of Velarifictorus Randell, 1964 (Orthoptera, Gryllidae, Gryllinae) with one new species and morphological diversity of Velarifictorus flavifrons Chopard, 1966. ZooKeys, 1084, 101–117. Available at http://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1084.77096

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

The name is derived from the habit of constructing an awning or hood over the entrance to their burrows, reported for the type species Scapsipedus micado (Alexander 1961).

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Genus1001
Subgenus3069
Superspecies1012
Species1170148265