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genus

Pterapotrechus Karny, 1937

Type

Paragryllacris beta Griffini, 1909 type species by original designation of Pterapotrechus Karny, 1937

Nomenclature (6)

  • Pterapotrechus Karny, 1937: 73.

    type species by original designation Paragryllacris beta Griffini, 1909

  • Pterapothrechus [sic] Karny, 1937 in Otte, 2000: 31.
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  • Pterapotrechus Karny, 1937 in Cadena-Castañeda, 2019: 99.
  • Pterapotrechus Karny, 1937 in Hegg, 2025: 79.

Nomenclature references (5)

  • Cadena-Castañeda, O.J. (2019) A proposal towards classification of the Raspy Crickets (Orthoptera: Stenopelmatoidea: Gryllacrididae) with zoogeographical comments: An initial contribution to the higher classification of the Gryllacridines. Zootaxa, 4605(1), 1–100.
  • Green, O.R. & Ramsay, G.W. (2003) A winged weta, Pterapotrechus (Orthoptera: Gryllacrididae), established in New Zealand. New Zealand Entomologist, 26, 75–77. Available at http://www.ento.org.nz/nzentomologist/free_issues/NZEnto26_1_2003/Volume%2026-75-77.pdf
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  • Hegg, D. (2025) An Australian raspy cricket established in New Zealand, Pterapotrechus salomonoides (Orthoptera, Gryllacrididae), with notes on ecology and first description of the male. Journal of Orthoptera Research, 34(1), 77–94. https://doi.org/10.3897/jor.34.134391
  • Karny, H.H. (1937) Orthoptera Fam. Gryllacrididae, Subfamiliae Omnes. In Genera Insectorum. P. Wytsman [Ed.]. V. Verteneuil & L. Desmet, Bruxelles. Vol. 206, 1–317 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/223806#page/9/mode/1up
  • Otte, D. (2000) Orthoptera Species File 8. Gryllacrididae, Stenopelmatidae, Cooloolidae, Schizodactylidae, Anastostomatidae and Rhaphidophoridae. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 97 pp.
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Descendants and synonyms

Life zone and ecology data

Terrestrial

Gender, form, and etymology
Masculine
Etymology:

From the Ancient Greek πτερόν (pterón), wing, (Karny 1937) and ὰποτρέχω (apotrechus), avoidant, running away (Brunner von Wattenwyl 1888). A winged version of the wingless genus Apotrechus Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1888.

Pterapotrechus Karny, 1937

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