genus

Rhabdocerca Cohn, Swanson & Fontana, 2014

Type

Dichopetala tridactyla Rehn & Hebard, 1914 type species by original designation of Rhabdocerca Cohn, Swanson & Fontana, 2014

Rhabdocerca Cohn, Swanson & Fontana, 2014: 34.
type species by original designation Dichopetala tridactyla Rehn & Hebard, 1914
Rhabdocerca Cohn, Swanson & Fontana, 2014 in Rocha-Sánchez, Zaldívar-Riverón, De Jesús-Bonilla, Barrientos-Lozano & Correa-Sandoval, 2019: 1437, 1444.

Rhabdocerca Cohn, Swanson & Fontana, 2014 (classified as Dichopetalini Cadena-Castañeda, 2026) in Cadena-Castañeda, 2026: 33, 80.

Cadena-Castañeda, O.J. (2026) Studies on Phaneropterinae: The short-winged bush katydids, Odonturini sensu lato, Barbististini and their allies (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae). Twelfth contribution to the suprageneric organization of phaneropterines. Zootaxa, 5762(1), 1–82. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5762.1.1
Cohn, T.J., Swanson, D.R. & Fontana, P. (2014) Dichopetala and new related North American genera: a study in genitalic similarity in sympatry and genitalic differences in allopatry (Tettigoniidae: Phaneropterinae: Odonturini). In Miscellaneous Publications Museum of Zoology University of Michigan. Vol. 203, 1–180 pp. Available at http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/122723

Rocha-Sánchez, A.Y., Zaldívar-Riverón, A., De Jesús-Bonilla, V.S., Barrientos-Lozano, L. & Correa-Sandoval, A. (2019) Molecular systematics of the Dichopetala genus group (Orthoptera: Phaneropteridae). Revista de Biología Tropical, 67(6), 1431–1448. Available at http://https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rbt/article/view/36085

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

From Greek, ῥάβδος, rhabdos, rod; Greek, κέρκος, cercos, tail (of an animal). The name refers to the dorsal rod-like appendage of the male cercus.