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Podoscirtinae Saussure, 1878

subfamily

Podoscirtinae Saussure, 1878

Overview

Type

Podoscirtus Serville, 1838 type genus of Podoscirtinae Saussure, 1878

Nomenclature (52)

Podoscirtinae Saussure, 1878
type genus Podoscirtus Serville, 1838
Podoscirtites Saussure, 1878: [693]. (not Latin)
type genus Podoscirtus Serville, 1838
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Podoscirtidae Saussure, 1878
type genus Podoscirtus Serville, 1838
Podoscirtites Saussure, 1878 (objective synonym of Podoscirtinae Saussure, 1878)
Podoscirtidae Saussure, 1878 (objective synonym of Podoscirtinae Saussure, 1878)
Podoscirtites Saussure, 1878 in Saussure, 1893: 257.
Podoscirtidae Saussure, 1878 in Bruner, 1916: 414, 416.
Podoscirtidae Saussure, 1878 in Chopard, 1951: 491.
Podoscirtinae Saussure, 1878 in Chopard, 1969: 326.
Podoscirtinae Saussure, 1878 in Vickery, 1977: 14.
Podoscirtinae Saussure, 1878 in Kevan, 1977: 40.
Podoscirtinae Saussure, 1878 in Gorochov, 1986: 519.
Podoscirtinae Saussure, 1878 in Gorochov, 1986
Podoscirtinae Saussure, 1878 in Desutter-Grandcolas, 1987: 234.
Podoscirtinae Saussure, 1878 in Otte, Alexander & Cade, 1987: 448.
Podoscirtidae Saussure, 1878 in Desutter-Grandcolas, 1987: 224.
Podoscirtinae Saussure, 1878 in Desutter-Grandcolas, 1988: 361.
Podoscirtinae Saussure, 1878 in Gorochov, 1988
Podoscirtidae Saussure, 1878 in Desutter-Grandcolas, 1988: 361.
Podoscirtinae Saussure, 1878 in Desutter-Grandcolas, 1990: 32, 233.
Podoscirtinae Saussure, 1878 in Vasanth, 1993: 114.
Podoscirtinae Saussure, 1878 in Otte, 1994: 72.
Podoscirtinae Saussure, 1878 in Otte, 1994: 86.
Podoscirtinae Saussure, 1878 in Oshiro, 1995: 37.
Podoscirtinae Saussure, 1878 in Gorochov, 1995: 27, 40, 48, 64, 73, 80, 109, 113, 144, 156, 175.
Podoscirtinae Saussure, 1878 in Gorochov, 1995: 18, 25.
Podoscirtinae Saussure, 1878 in Yin & Liu, 1995: 101, 213.
Podoscirtinae Saussure, 1878 in Ingrisch, 1997: 48.
Podoscirtinae Saussure, 1878 in Gorochov, 2002
Podoscirtinae Saussure, 1878 in Gorochov, 2003
Podoscirtinae Saussure, 1878 in Gorochov, 2004
Podoscirtinae Saussure, 1878 in Storozhenko, 2004: 33.
Podoscirtidae Saussure, 1878 in Storozhenko, 2004: 33.
Podoscirtinae Saussure, 1878 in Gorochov, 2005
Podoscirtinae Saussure, 1878 in Gorochov, 2006
Podoscirtinae Saussure, 1878 in Gorochov, 2007
Podoscirtinae Saussure, 1878 in Gorochov, 2008: 15.
Podoscirtinae Saussure, 1878 in Gorochov, 2010
Podoscirtinae Saussure, 1878 in Gorochov, 2011
Podoscirtinae Saussure, 1878 in Gorochov, 2013
Podoscirtinae Saussure, 1878 in Gorochov, 2015
Podoscirtinae Saussure, 1878 in Anso, Jourdan & Desutter-Grandcolas, 2016: 30.
Podoscirtinae Saussure, 1878 in Desutter-Grandcolas, Anso & Jourdan, 2016: 436.
Podoscirtinae Saussure, 1878 in Gorochov, 2017
Podoscirtinae Saussure, 1878 in Gorochov, 2018
Podoscirtinae Saussure, 1878 in Rentz & Su, 2019: 124.
Podoscirtinae Saussure, 1878 in Gorochov, 2020: 248.
Podoscirtinae Saussure, 1878 in Gorochov, 2021: 381.
Podoscirtinae Saussure, 1878 in Zheng, Xin, Xie & Ma, 2021: 401, 404.
Podoscirtinae Saussure, 1878 in Gorochov, 2021: 65.

Podoscirtinae Saussure, 1878 in Campos, Souza-Dias, Audino, Desutter-Grandcolas & Nihei, 2022: 19.
Podoscirtinae Saussure, 1878 in Gorochov, 2025: 19.

Nomenclature references (45)

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Bruner, L. (1916) South American crickets, Gryllotalpoidea and Achetoidea. Annals of the Carnegie Museum, 10, 344–428. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/38133
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Chopard, L. (1951) A revision of the Australian Grylloidea. Records of the South Australian Museum, 9, 397–533. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127415#page/458/mode/1up

Chopard, L. (1969) Orthoptera. Vol. 2. Grylloidea. In The Fauna of India and the Adjacent Countries. Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta. i-xviii, 1–421. Available at https://archive.org/details/IndianGrylloidea

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.

de Saussure, H. (1878) Mélanges orthoptérologiques. VI. fascicule Gryllides. Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève, 25(2), 369–704 [505–834]. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/122148#page/525/mode/1up

de Saussure, H. (1893) Orthoptera. Biologia Centrali-Americana, 1. Available at http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/bca/navigation/bca_20_01_00/bca_20_01_00select.cfm

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

Desutter-Grandcolas, L. (1988) Structure et évolution du complexe phallique des Gryllidea (Orthoptères) et classification des genres néotropicaux de Grylloidea. Deuxième partie. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, 24(3), 343–373. Available at http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6141059g/f354.item

Desutter-Grandcolas, L. (1990) In Étude phylogénétique, biogéographique et écologique des Grylloidea néotropicaux (Insectes, Orthoptères). Doctoral thesis, University of Paris. 347 pp.

Desutter-Grandcolas, L., Anso, J. & Jourdan, H. (2016) Crickets of New Caledonia (Insecta, Orthoptera, Grylloidea): a key to genera, with diagnoses of extant genera and descriptions of new taxa. Zoosystema, 38(4), 405–452. Available at http://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques/zoosystema/38/4/les-grillons-de-nouvelle-caledonie-insecta-orthoptera-grylloidea-cle-d-identification-des-genres-diagnoses-des-genres-existants-et-description-de-nouveaux-taxons

Gorochov, A.V. (1986) System and morphological evolution of crickets from the family Gryllidae (Orthoptera) with description of new taxa. Communication 1. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 65(4), 516–527. [in Russian] Available at http://gryllus.smart21.ru/gryllus/Gorochov%27s%20papers%20in%20PDF%20and%20list%20of%20his%20publications/1986%20%2826-32%29/27%20On%20syst%20&%20evol%20Gryllidae%201%20%28russian%29%201986.pdf

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. (1988) New and little-known crickets of the subfamilies Landrevinae and Podoscirtinae (Orthoptera, Gryllidae) from Vietnam and certain other territories. In Fauna i ekologiya nasekomykh Vetnama [The fauna and ecology of insects of Vietnam]. Nauka, Moscow. pp. 5–21. [in Russian] Available at http://gryllus.smart21.ru/gryllus/Gorochov%27s%20papers%20in%20PDF%20and%20list%20of%20his%20publications/1988%20(37-45)/42%20Landrevinae%20Podoscirtinae%20Vietnam%20[Fauna%20and%20ecology%20of%20Vietnam%20insects.%20Moscow.%20Nauka]%20(russian)%201988.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. (2002) Taxonomy of Podoscirtinae (Orthoptera: Gryllidae). Part 1: The male genitalia and Indo-Malayan Podoscirtini. Zoosystematica Rossica, 10(2), 303–350. [2001] Available at http://gryllus.smart21.ru/gryllus/Gorochov%27s%20papers%20in%20PDF%20and%20list%20of%20his%20publications/2002/140%20Podoscirtini%201%20Asia%202002.pdf

Gorochov, A.V. (2003) Taxonomy of Podoscirtinae (Orthoptera: Gryllidae). Part 2: Indo-Malayan and Australo-Oceanian Podoscirtini. Zoosystematica Rossica, 11(2), 267–303. Available at http://gryllus.smart21.ru/gryllus/Gorochov%27s%20papers%20in%20PDF%20and%20list%20of%20his%20publications/2003%20bad/150%20BAD%20Podoscirtini%202%20Oceania%202003.pdf

Gorochov, A.V. (2004) Taxonomy of Podoscirtinae (Orthoptera: Gryllidae). Part 3: Podoscirtini from Madagascar and nearest regions. Zoosystematica Rossica, 12(2), 187–215. Available at http://gryllus.smart21.ru/gryllus/Gorochov%27s%20papers%20in%20PDF%20and%20list%20of%20his%20publications/2004/167%20Podoscirtini%203%20Madagascar%202004.pdf

Gorochov, A.V. (2005) Taxonomy of Podoscirtinae (Orthoptera: Gryllidae). Part 4: African Podoscirtini and geography of the tribe. Zoosystematica Rossica, 13(2), 181–208. Available at http://gryllus.smart21.ru/gryllus/Gorochov%27s%20papers%20in%20PDF%20and%20list%20of%20his%20publications/2005%20%28180-195%29/184%20Podoscirtini%204%20Africa%202005.pdf

Gorochov, A.V. (2006) Taxonomy of Podoscirtinae (Orthoptera: Gryllidae). Part 5: New Indo-Malayan and Madagascan Podoscirtini. Zoosystematica Rossica, 15(1), 33–46. Available at http://gryllus.smart21.ru/gryllus/Gorochov%27s%20papers%20in%20PDF%20and%20list%20of%20his%20publications/2006%20%28196-205%29%20bad/201%20Podoscirtini%205%20Asia,%20Madagascar%202006.pdf

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Descendants and synonyms

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
subfamily	1	0	2	3
supertribe	2	0	1	3
tribe	7	0	6	13
subtribe	2	0	0	2
infratribe	8	0	0	8
genus	108	4	18	130
subgenus	40	0	28	68
superspecies	15	0	1	16
species	987	5	492	1484
subspecies	52	0	33	85