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Orthoptera Species File
Subfamily

Hexacentrinae Karny, 1925

fierce predatory katydids

Type

type genus of Hexacentrinae Karny, 1925

Nomenclature (20)

  • Hexacentrinae Karny, 1925

    type genus Hexacentrus Serville, 1831

  • Hexacentrini Karny, 1925

    type genus Hexacentrus Serville, 1831

  • Hexacentrini Karny, 1925 in Sultana, Panhwar & Wagan, 2017: 1129.
  • Hexacentrinae Karny, 1925 in Alo, Nuñeza & Tan, 2026: 587.

References (14)

  • Karny, H.H. (1925) List of some katydids (Tettigoniidae) in the Sarawak Museum. The Sarawak Museum Journal, 3, 35–53. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/50884#page/53/mode/1up
  • Kästner (1933) Die Hexacentrinae des Stettiner Museums (Orthopteren des Stettiner Museums 3 Teil.). Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung, 94, 21–46.
  • 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]
  • Gorochov, A.V. (1995) System and evolution of the suborder Ensifera (Orthoptera). Part II. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 260, 1–213. [in Russian]
  • Rentz, D.C.F. (1996) Grasshopper Country. The Abundant Orthopteroid Insects of Australia. CSIRO, UNSW Press, Sydney, i-xi, 1–284.
  • Otte, D. (1997) Orthoptera Species File 7. Tettigonioidea. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 373 pp.
  • 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
  • Storozhenko, S.Y. (2004) Long-horned orthopterans (Orthoptera: Ensifera) of the Asiatic part of Russia. Dalnauka, Vladivostok, 280 pp. [in Russian]
  • Gorochov, A.V. (2007) Notes on taxonomy of the subfamily Hexacentrinae with descriptions of some taxa (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae). Zoosystematica Rossica, 16(2), 209–214. Available at http://gryllus.smart21.ru/gryllus/Gorochov%27s%20papers%20in%20PDF%20and%20list%20of%20his%20publications/2007%20%28206-216%29%20semibad/216%20Hexacentrinae%202007.pdf
  • 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
  • Mugleston, J.D., Song, H. & Whiting, M.F. (2013) A century of paraphyly: a molecular phylogeny of katydids (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) supports multiple origins of leaf-like wings. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 69(3), 1120–1134. Available at http://schistocerca.org/PDF/Mugleston%20et%20al.%202013%20(MPE).pdf
  • Storozhenko, S.Y., Kim, T. & Jeon, M.-J. (2015) Monograph of Korean Orthoptera. National Institute of Biological Resources, Incheon, 377 pp.
  • Sultana, R., Panhwar, W.A. & Wagan, M.S. (2017) Key to the tribes and genera of Tettigonioidea (Orthoptera) of Pakistan. Pakistan Journal of Zoology, 49(3), 1127–1130. Available at http://researcherslinks.com/current-issues/Key-Tribes-Genera-Tettigonioidea-Orthoptera-Pakistan/20/3/477/html
  • Alo, J.R.A., Nuñeza, O.M. & Tan, M.K. (2026) A revision of little-known genera Euhexacentrus Hebard, 1922 and Philippicentrus Willemse, 1961 (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Hexacentrinae) endemic to the Philippines. Zootaxa, 5894(4), 585–600. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5894.4.6

Descendants and synonyms

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Subfamily1012
Tribe2002
Genus130417
Species6201880
Subspecies2057