Orthoptera Species File
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.

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
genus1012
subgenus1001727
species1701656827
subspecies15099114