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genus

Conocephalus Thunberg, 1815

lesser meadow katydids

Type

Gryllus (Tettigonia) conocephalus Linnaeus, 1767 type species of Conocephalus Thunberg, 1815

Nomenclature (38)

  • Conocephalus Thunberg, 1815: 214, 218, 271. (valid)

    type species Gryllus (Tettigonia) conocephalus Linnaeus, 1767

  • Conocephalus Thunberg, 1815 in Kirby & Spence, 1826: 569, 609.
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  • Conocephalus Thunberg, 1815 in García García, Fontana, Marini, Equihua-Martiniez, Sanchez-Escudero, Valdez-Carrasco & Cano-Santana, 2008: 85.
  • Conocephalus Thunberg, 1815 in Zhou, Bi & Liu, 2010: 49.

Nomenclature references (38)

  • Berthold (1827) Latreille's Natürliche Familien des Thierreichs, aus dem Französischen mit Anmerkungen und Zusätzen. Weimar, VIII + 602 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/44021#page/7/mode/1up
  • Blatchley, W.S. (1894) The Locustidae of Indiana. Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science, 92–153. [1892] Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8529943#page/100/mode/1up
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  • Bolívar, I. (1877) Sinopsis de los Ortópteros de España y Portugal. III. Anales de la Sociedad Española de Historia Natural, 6, 249–348, 3 pls. Available at http://bibdigital.rjb.csic.es/ing/Libro.php?Libro=1130
  • Bruner, L. (1915) Notes on tropical American Tettigonoidea (Locustodea). Annals of the Carnegie Museum, 9(3-4), 284–404. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/annalsofcarnegie09carn
  • Caudell, A.N. (1910) [Remarks on type species of Conocephalus and Dectinomima jenningsi sp. nov.]. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 12, 95–97. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/20247#page/121/mode/1up
  • Chang, Y.-L. & Al., E. (1997) The species distinction of the genus Conocephalus from Sichuan. Sichuan Journal of Zoology, 16(1), 34–36.
  • 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
  • Defaut, B. (2001) Actualisation taxonomique et nomenclaturale du "Synopsis des orthoptères de France". Matériaux Orthoptériques et Entomocénotiques, 6, 107–112.
  • Defaut, B. (2001) In La détermination des Orthoptères de France. Bedeilhac. 85 pp.
  • García García, P.L., Fontana, P., Marini, L., Equihua-Martiniez, A., Sanchez-Escudero, J., Valdez-Carrasco, J. & Cano-Santana, Z. (2008) Habitat association of Orthoptera in El Cimatario National Park, Queretaro. Journal of Orthoptera Research, 17(1), 83–87. Available at http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.1665/1082-6467%282008%2917%5B83%3AHAOOIE%5D2.0.CO%3B2
  • 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]
  • Harz, K. (1969) Die Orthopteren Europas I. Series Entomologica, 5, 1–749.
  • Hebard, M. (1922) Studies in Malayan, Melanesian and Australian Tettigoniidae (Orthoptera). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 74, 121–299, pl. 11–22. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/proceedingsofaca74acad
  • Hebard, M. (1934) The Dermaptera and Orthoptera of Illinois. Bulletin of the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History, 20, 125–279. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14760321
  • Jin, X. & Xia, K.-L. (1994) An index-catalogue of Chinese Tettigoniodea (Orthopteroidea: Grylloptera). Journal of Orthoptera Research, 3, 15–41.
  • Karny, H.H. (1912) Orthoptera Fam. Locustidae Subfam. Conocephalinae. In Genera Insectorum. P. Wytsman [Ed.]. V. Verteneuil & L. Desmet, Bruxelles. Vol. 135, 1–17 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/123362#page/3/mode/1up
  • Kim, T.-W. & Kim, J.-I. (2002) Taxonomic study of the genus Conocephalus Thunberg in Korea (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Conocephalinae). Korean Journal of Entomology, 32(1), 13–19. Available at http://jasa.pe.kr/pulmuchi/conocephalus.pdf
  • Kirby, W.F. & Spence, W. (1826) In An Introduction to Entomology, or Elements of the Natural History of Insects. Longman, London. Vol. 3, 732 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/79018#page/11/mode/1up
  • 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
  • Kleukers, R.M.J.C., Decleer, K., Haes, E.C.M., Kolshorn, P. & Thomas, B. (1996) The recent expansion of Conocephalus discolor (Thunberg) (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) in western Europe. Entomologist's Gazette, 47(1), 37–49.
  • Liu, X.-W. & Zhang, D. (2007) A study of the genus Conocephalus Thunberg and descriptions of two new species from China (Orthoptera, Conocephalidae). Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica, 32, 438–444.
  • Morris, G.K. & Fullard, J.H. (1983) Random noise and congeneric discrimination in Conocephalus (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae). In Orthopteran Mating Systems: Sexual Competition in a Diverse Group of Insects. Westview Press, Boulder, CO. pp. 73–96. Available at http://entnemdept.ifas.ufl.edu/walker/Buzz/s220lmf83.pdf
  • Naskrecki, P. (2000) Katydids of Costa Rica. Vol. 1. Systematics and bioacoustics of the cone-head katydids. The Orthopterists' Society at The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, 1–164 pp.
  • Nickle, D.A. (1992) Katydids of Panama (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae). In Insects of Panama and Mesoamerica: Selected Studies. Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York & Tokyo. pp. 142–184, 649, 658.
  • Pinedo, C. (1985) Los Tettigoniidae de la Península Ibérica, España insular y norte de Africa. II. Subfamilia Conocephalinae Kirby, 1906 (Orthoptera). Eos, Revista española de Entomología, 60, 267–280. [1984] Available at http://hdl.handle.net/10261/170401
  • Pitkin, L.M. (1980) A revision of the Pacific species of Conocephalus Thunberg (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology, 41(5), 315–355. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/bulletinofbritis41entolond
  • Redtenbacher, J. (1891) Monographie der Conocephaliden. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 41, 315–562. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/49919#page/459/mode/1up
  • Rehn, J.A.G. & Hebard, M. (1915) Studies in American Tettigoniidae V. A synopsis of the genus Conocephalus found in North America, north of Mexico. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 41, 155–224. Available at http://reader.library.cornell.edu/docviewer/digital?id=chla5077659_4251_002#page/82/mode/1up
  • Rehn, J.A.G. & Hebard, M. (1915) Studies in American Tettigoniidae VI. A synopsis of the species of the genus Conocephalus found in America south of the southern border of the United States. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 41(2), 225–290, Pl. XXI-XXIV. Available at http://reader.library.cornell.edu/docviewer/digital?id=chla5077659_4251_002#page/158/mode/1up
  • Rentz, D.C.F. & Balderson, J. (1979) Catalogue of Australian Tettigoniidae. CSIRO Division of Entomology Technical Paper, 15, 1–24.
  • Scudder, S.H. (1897) In Guide to the genera and classification of North American Orthoptera found north of Mexico. Cambridge, Mass. 87 pp. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/guidetogeneracla00scudrich
  • Serville, J.G.A. (1831) Revue méthodique des insectes de l'ordre des Orthoptères. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, 22(86), 28–65, 134–167, 262–292. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/29456
  • Serville, J.G.A. (1838) Histoire naturelle des insectes. Orthoptères. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris, i-xviii, 1–776, pl. 1–14. [1839] Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/54314
  • Storozhenko, S.Y. (2004) In Long-horned orthopterans (Orthoptera: Ensifera) of the Asiatic part of Russia. Dalnauka, Vladivostok. 280 pp. [in Russian]
  • Thunberg, C.P. (1815) Hemipterorum maxillosorum genera illustrata plurimisque novis speciebus ditata ac descripta. Mémoires de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St. Pétersbourg, 5, 211–301. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=5woZAAAAYAAJ
  • Tinkham, E.R. (1943) New species and records of Chinese Tettigoniidae from the Heude Museum, Shanghai. Notes d'Entomologie Chinoise. Musée Heude, 10(2), 33–66.
  • Us, P.A. (1992) Fauna of Orthopteroidea - insect group in Slovenia. Slovenska Akad. Znanosti Umetnosti Razred Naravoslovne Vede Dela, 32, 1–325.
  • Zhou, M., Bi, W.-X. & Liu, X.-W. (2010) The genus Conocephalus (Orthoptera, Tettigonioidea) in China. Zootaxa, 2527, 49–60. Available at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2010/f/zt02527p060.pdf

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Relating to the cone-shaped head.

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RankExtantFossilInvalid Total
genus1012
subgenus1001727
species1671656824
subspecies15099114