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Orthoptera Species File
genus

Megatympanon Piza, 1958

Type

Megatympanon speculatum Piza, 1958 type species by original monotypy of Megatympanon Piza, 1958

Nomenclature (11)

  • Megatympanon Piza, 1958: 237.

    type species by original monotypy Megatympanon speculatum Piza, 1958

  • Megatympanon Piza, 1958 in Piza, 1971: 320.
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  • Megatympanon Piza, 1958 in Fialho, Chamorro-Rengifo, Lopes-Andrade & Yotoko, 2014: 37.
  • Megatympanon Piza, 1958 in Mendes, Sobral & Silva-Neto, 2023: 431.

Nomenclature references (10)

  • Fialho, V.S., Chamorro-Rengifo, J., Lopes-Andrade, C. & Yotoko, K.S.C. (2014) Systematics of spiny predatory katydids (Tettigoniidae: Listroscelidinae) from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest based on morphology and molecular data. PLoS One, 9(8), 1–43. Available at http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0103758
  • 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]
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  • Mendes, D.M.de M., Sobral, R. & da Silva-Neto, A.M. (2023) The Austral Predator Katydid—new species of Megatympanon Piza, 1958 (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Listroscelidinae: Terpandrini) from the Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest. Zootaxa, 5263(3), 430–440.
  • Otte, D. (1997) Orthoptera Species File 7. Tettigonioidea. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 373 pp.
  • Piza, S.de T., Jr. (1958) A primeira espécie neotropical da família "Tympanophoridae" (Orthoptera, Tettigonioidea). Revista Brasileira de Biologia, 18(2), 237–241.
  • Piza, S.de T., Jr. (1971) O segundo gênero brasileiro da família Tympanophoridae (Orthoptera). Studia Entomologica, N.S. (Petrópolis), 14(1-4), 319–320.
  • Rentz, D.C.F. (1979) Comments on the classification of the orthopteran family Tettigoniidae, with a key to subfamilies and description of two new subfamilies. Australian Journal of Zoology, 27, 991–1013.
  • Rentz, D.C.F. (2001) The Listroscelidinae, Tympanophorinae, Meconematinae and Microtettigoniinae. In A Monograph of the Tettigoniidae of Australia. CSIRO, Melbourne. Vol. 3, 1–524 pp. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=rz6bHWhrbhMC
  • Rentz, D.C.F. (2010) A Guide to the Katydids of Australia. CSIRO Publishing, 214 pp. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=Gd8CM_wn7pMC
  • Riek, E.F. (1976) The Australian genus Tympanophora White (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Tympanophorinae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society, 15, 161–171. Available at http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/119646740/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0#ss1

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Reference to male stridualatory area with large mirror cells.

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
species2024