Orthoptera Species File

genus

Itara Walker, 1869

Type

Itara sericea Walker, 1869 type species by original monotypy of Itara Walker, 1869

Nomenclature (5)

Itara Walker, 1869: 64.
type species by original monotypy Itara sericea Walker, 1869
Itara Walker, 1869 in Ma & Zhang, 2015: 529.
... Show all ... (1)

Itara Walker, 1869 in Meena, Swaminathan, Nagar, Chhangani & Kumar, 2021: 494.
Itara Walker, 1869 in Muhammad & Tan, 2025: 99.

Nomenclature references (5)

He, Z. & Ma, L. (2021) Crickets of the subfamily Itarinae Shiraki, 1930 (Orthoptera: Gryllidae) from China with description of a new species and distribution and critical notes on other species. Zootaxa, 4942(3), 382–408.
Ma, L. & Zhang, Y.-L. (2015) Revision of the cricket species of the subfamily Itarinae (Orthoptera: Gryllidae) from China. The Canadian Entomologist, 147(5), 527–540.
... Show all ... (1)

Muhammad, A.A. & Tan, M.K. (2025) The diversity of Orthoptera in the northwestern parts of Mount Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia. Journal of Orthoptera Research, 34(1), 95–118. https://doi.org/10.3897/jor.34.128225
Walker, F. (1869) In Catalogue of the Specimens of Dermaptera Saltatoria in the Collection of the British Museum. London. Vol. 1, 1–224 pp. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/catalogueofspeci01britrich

© Basemap from GBIF

Aggregate (Asserted distribution & Georeference)

Descendants and synonyms

Itara Walker, 1869

Life zone and ecology data

Terrestrial

Itara Walker, 1869

Stats

	Names
Rank	Total	Valid	Invalid
genus	1	1	0
subgenus	13	10	3
species	83	62	21
subspecies	4	2	2