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Orthoptera Species File
Family

Oecanthidae Blanchard, 1845

Type

type genus of Oecanthidae Blanchard, 1845

Nomenclature (13)

  • Oecanthidae Blanchard, 1845

    type genus Oecanthus Serville, 1831

  • Oecanthidae Blanchard, 1845 in Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1873: 164.
  • Oecanthidae Blanchard, 1845 in Ferreira, Desutter-Grandcolas, Nel, Josse & Campos, 2024
  • Oecanthidae Blanchard, 1845 in Campos, Audino, Nihei & Desutter-Grandcolas, 2026

References (13)

  • Blanchard, C.É. (1845) Histoire naturelle des insectes. Colèoptères, Orthoptères, Thysanoptères, Névroptères, Lépidoptères, Hémiptères, Aphaniptères, Strepsiptères, Diptères, Anoplures et Thysanures. In Histoire des insectes : traitant de leurs moeurs et de leurs métamorphoses en général et comprenant une nouvelle classification fondée sur leurs rapports naturels. Librairie de F. Didot Frères, Paris. Vol. 2, 1–524, pl. 11–20. Available at http://archive.org/stream/CUbiodiversity1121365-9737#page/244/mode/2up/search/oecanth
  • Brunner von Wattenwyl, C. (1873) Système des Gryllides. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft, 4(4), 163–170. Available at http://www.e-periodica.ch/digbib/view?pid=seg-001%3A1872%3A4%3A%3A166#184
  • Brunner von Wattenwyl, C. (1882) Prodromus der europäischen Orthopteren. Engelmann, Leipzig, XXXII + 466 pp., XI tab. Available at http://www.zobodat.at/publikation_volumes.php?id=35024
  • Chopard, L. (1951) Orthoptéroïdes. In Faune de France. Fédération Française des Sociétés de Sciences Naturelles, Paris. Vol. 56, 359 pp. Available at http://faunedefrance.org/bibliotheque/docs/L.CHOPARD%28FdeFr56%29Orthopteroides.pdf
  • Vickery, V.R. (1977) Taxon ranking in Grylloidea and Gryllotalpoidea. Notes of the Lyman Entomological Museum and Research Laboratory, 3, 1–20. [1976]
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1982) Orthoptera. In Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. McGraw-Hill Book Company. Vol. 2, pp. 352–379.
  • Baccetti, B. (1987) Spermatozoa and phylogeny in Orthopteroid insects. In Evolutionary Biology of Orthopteroid Insects (Ellis Horwood series in entomology and acarology). Ellis Horwood Ltd., Chichester, England. pp. 12–112.
  • Desutter-Grandcolas, L. (1987) Structure et évolution du complexe phallique de Gryllidea (Orthoptères) et classification des genres néotropicaux de Grylloidea. Première partie. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, 23(3), 213–239. Available at http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6139207n/f3.image
  • 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]
  • de Campos, L.D., Souza-Dias, P.G.B., Audino, J.A., Desutter-Grandcolas, L. & Nihei, S.S. (2022) The fifth family of the true crickets (Insecta: Orthoptera: Ensifera: Grylloidea), Oecanthidae defin. nov.: phylogenetic relationships and divergence times. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 20, 1–44.
  • Ferreira, J., Desutter-Grandcolas, L., Nel, A., Josse, H. & de Campos, L.D. (2024) First 3D reconstruction of the male genitalia of a Cretaceous fossil cricket: Diving into the evolutionary history of the Oecanthidae family (Orthoptera: Grylloidea) with the incorporation of new fossils in its phylogeny and a total‐evidence dating approach. Systematic Entomology. https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12625
  • de Campos, L.D., Audino, J.A., Nihei, S.S. & Desutter-Grandcolas, L. (2026) Going silent? Evidence for independent losses of acoustic communication in tree crickets (Insecta, Orthoptera, Grylloidea, Oecanthidae). Journal of Systematics and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1111/jse.70080

Descendants and synonyms

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Family1001
Subfamily4048
Supertribe6039
Tribe1201123
Subtribe2002
Infratribe100313
Genus153742202
Subgenus4403276
Superspecies230124
Species146587022175
Subspecies77064141