genus

Meloimorpha Walker, 1870

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Type

type species by original monotypy of Meloimorpha Walker, 1870

Nomenclature (26)

Meloimorpha Walker, 1870: 468. (valid)
type species by original monotypy Meloimorpha cincticornis Walker, 1870
Meloimorpha Walker, 1870 in Kirby, 1906: 109.
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Leptoteratura Yamasaki, 1982 (subjective synonym of Meloimorpha Walker, 1870) in Gorochov, 2022: 19.
Meloimorpha Walker, 1870 in Wang, Xie, Zhang & Ma, 2025: 556.

References (25)

Chopard, L. (1968) Fam. Gryllidae: Subfam. Mogoplistinae, Myrmecophilinae, Scleropterinae, Cachoplistinae, Pteroplistinae, Pentacentrinae, Phalangopsinae, Trigonidiinae, Eneopterinae; Fam. Oecanthidae, Gryllotalpidae. In Orthopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 12, pp. 213–500.
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Gorochov, A.V. (1986) System and morphological evolution of crickets from the family Gryllidae (Orthoptera) with description of new taxa. Communication 2. Zoologicheskiy Zhurnal, 65(6), 851–858. Available at http://gryllus.smart21.ru/gryllus/Gorochov%27s%20papers%20in%20PDF%20and%20list%20of%20his%20publications/1986%20%2826-32%29/28%20On%20syst%20&%20evol%20Gryllidae%202%20%28russian%29%201986.pdf

Gorochov, A.V. (1993) A contribution to the knowledge of the tribe Meconematini (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae). Zoosystematica Rossica, 2(1), 63–92. Available at http://gryllus.smart21.ru/gryllus/Gorochov%27s%20papers%20in%20PDF%20and%20list%20of%20his%20publications/1993%20%2863-68%29/66%20Meconematini%201993.pdf

Gorochov, A.V. (1994) New orthopterans of the infraorder Tettigoniidea (Orthoptera) from Vietnam and China. In Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Vol. 257, pp. 18–50. Available at http://gryllus.smart21.ru/gryllus/Gorochov%27s%20papers%20in%20PDF%20and%20list%20of%20his%20publications/1994/76%20Tettigoniidea%20Vietnam%20China%20%28russian%29%201994.pdf

Gorochov, A.V. (1995) System and evolution of the suborder Ensifera (Orthoptera). Part I. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 260, 1–224. [in Russian]

Gorochov, A.V. (1995) System and evolution of the suborder Ensifera (Orthoptera). Part II. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 260, 1–213. [in Russian]

Gorochov, A.V. (1996) New and little known crickets from the collection of the Humboldt University and some other collections (Orthopera: Grylloidea). Part 2. Zoosystematica Rossica, 5(1), 29–90. Available at http://gryllus.smart21.ru/gryllus/Gorochov%27s%20papers%20in%20PDF%20and%20list%20of%20his%20publications/1996/90%20Grylloidea%20Humboldt%202%201996.pdf

Gorochov, A.V. (1998) New and little known Meconematinae of the tribes Meconematini and Phlugidini (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae). Zoosystematica Rossica, 7(1), 101–131. Available at http://gryllus.smart21.ru/gryllus/Gorochov%27s%20papers%20in%20PDF%20and%20list%20of%20his%20publications/1998/97%20Meconematini%20&%20Phlugidini%201998.pdf

Gorochov, A.V. (2003) New and little-known Cachoplistinae and Phaloriinae (Orthoptera: Gryllidae). Zoosystematica Rossica, 12(1), 79–92. Available at http://gryllus.smart21.ru/gryllus/Gorochov%27s%20papers%20in%20PDF%20and%20list%20of%20his%20publications/2003%20bad/162%20Cacoplistinae%202003.pdf

Gorochov, A.V. (2008) New and little known katydids of the tribe Meconematini (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Meconematinae) from south-east Asia. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 312(1-2), 26–42. Available at http://www.zin.ru/journals/trudyzin/doc/vol_312_1_2/TZ_312_1_2_Gorochov.pdf

Gorochov, A.V. (2022) Taxonomy of the katydids (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) from East Asia and adjacent islands. Communication 15. Far Eastern Entomologist, 459, 1–26. Available at http://www.biosoil.ru/FEE/Publication/2195

Jin, X., Liu, X.-W. & Wang, H. (2020) New taxa of the tribe Meconematini from South-Pacific and Indo-Malayan Regions (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae, Meconematinae). Zootaxa, 4772(1), 1–53.

Kirby, W.F. (1906) Orthoptera Saltatoria. Part I. (Achetidae et Phasgonuridae). In A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae). British Museum (Natural History), London. Vol. 2, i-viii, 1–562. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/29662

Mao, S.-L. & Shi, F. (2007) A review of the genus Leptoteratura Yamasaki, 1982 (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Meconematinae) from China. Zootaxa, 1583, 37–42.

Otte, D. (1994) Orthoptera Species File 1. Crickets (Grylloidea). The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 120 pp.

Otte, D. (1997) Orthoptera Species File 7. Tettigonioidea. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 373 pp.

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Storozhenko, S.Y., Kim, T. & Jeon, M.-J. (2015) Monograph of Korean Orthoptera. National Institute of Biological Resources, Incheon, 377 pp.

Tan, M.K., Gorochov, A.V. & Wahab, R.A. (2017) New taxa and notes of katydids from the tribe Meconematini (Orthoptera: Meconematinae) from Brunei Darussalam. Zootaxa, 4337(3), 390–402.

Walker, F. (1870) Catalogue of the Specimens of Dermaptera Saltatoria in the Collection of the British Museum. London, Vol. 3, 425–604 pp. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/catalogueofspeci03britrich

Wang, N., Xie, C.-H., Zhang, T. & Ma, L. (2025) New distribution records for Phalangopsinae, Indozacla Gorochov, 2018, and Meloimorpha cincticornis Walker, 1870 in China, along with a report on a new species Indozacla dorsiglaber Ma & Wang sp. nov. (Orthoptera: Phalangopsidae). Zootaxa, 5653(4), 553–562. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5653.4.6

Yamasaki, T. (1982) Some new or little known species of the Meconematinae (Orthoptera, Tettigonidae) from Japan. Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Tokyo, Series A (Zoology), 8(3), 119–130, illustr.

Yamasaki, T. (1987) Four new meconematine species of the genus Leptoteratura (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae) from the Ryukyu Islands and Taiwan. Kontyû, Tokyo Entomological Society, 55(2), 342–353, illustr.
Yamasaki, T. (1988) Two new meconematine taxa of the genus Leptoteratura (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae) from the Ryukyu Islands. Proceedings of the Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology, 38, 37–42.

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

Probably alluding to the similarity to blister beetles of the family Meloidae.

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
Taxon	Valid names
Rank	Extant	Fossil	Invalid	Total
genus	1	0	3	4
species	4	0	4	8
subspecies	2	0	15	17