Skip to main content
Orthoptera Species File
Genus

Hexacentrus Serville, 1831

balloon-winged katydids; fierce predatory katydids

Type

type species by original monotypy of Hexacentrus Serville, 1831

Nomenclature (38)

  • Hexacentrus Serville, 1831: 145.

    type species by original monotypy Hexacentrus unicolor Serville, 1831

  • Hexacentrus Serville, 1831 in Burmeister, 1838: 714.
  • Hexacentrus Serville, 1831 in Kim, Kim, Kim & Shin, 2024
  • Hexacentrus Serville, 1831 in Morris, Ingrisch, Willemse, Willemse, De Luca & Klimas, 2025: 71.

References (31)

  • 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
  • Burmeister, H.C.C. (1838) Kaukerfe, Gymnognatha (Erste Hälfte: Vulgo Orthoptera). In Handbuch der Entomologie. Theodor Christian Friedrich Enslin, Berlin. Vol. 2, Issue I-VIII, 397–756 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25467340#page/13/mode/1up
  • Walker, F. (1869) Catalogue of the Specimens of Dermaptera Saltatoria in the Collection of the British Museum. London, Vol. 2, 225–423 pp. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/catalogueofspeci02britrich
  • Stål, C. (1874) Recensio Orthopterorum. Revue critique des Orthoptères décrits par Linné, De Geer et Thunberg. Stockholm, Vol. 2, 121 pp. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=nSxDAAAAYAAJ
  • Kirby, W.F. (1890) On the employment of names proposed for genera of Orthoptera, previous to 1840. Scientific Proceedings of the Royal Dublin Society, 6, 556–597. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/95855#page/572/mode/1up
  • 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
  • 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
  • Karny, H.H. (1907) Revisio Conocephalidarum. Abhandlungen der K.K. Zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft Wien, 4(3), 1–114. Available at http://www.landesmuseum.at/biophp/de/band_det.php?litnr=29695
  • Griffini, A. (1908) Phasgonuridae africane del R. Museo di Storia Naturale di Bruxelles. Meconemidae et Conocephalidae. Mémoires de la Société Entomologique de Belgique, 15, 65–73. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/41740#page/79/mode/1up
  • Karny, H.H. (1912) Orthoptera Fam. Locustidae subfam. Listroscelinae. In Genera Insectorum. P. Wytsman [Ed.]. V. Verteneuil & L. Desmet, Bruxelles. Vol. 131, 1–19 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/63155#page/425/mode/1up
  • Bruner, L. (1916) Notes on the Orthopteroid Insects of the Fiji Islands. Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society, 3, 148–168. Available at http://biostor.org/reference/70155
  • Karny, H.H. (1926) Beiträge zur malayischen Orthopterenfauna XV. Die Conocephalinen (s. l.) des Buitenzorger Museums. Hortus Botanicus Bogoriensis, Java (Treubia), 9(1-3), 162–254.
  • Karny, H.H. (1931) Orthoptera Celebica Sarasiniana. Fam. Tettigoniidae. Hortus Botanicus Bogoriensis, Java (Treubia), 12 (Suppl.), 4–140.
  • Zeuner, F.E. (1936) The prothoracic tracheal apparatus of Saltatoria (Orthoptera). Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London (A), 11(1-2), 11–22.
  • Zeuner, F.E. (1936) The recent and fossil Tympanophorinae (Tettigoniidae, Saltatoria). Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 85(12), 287–302.
  • Cohn, T.J. (1957) The relationships of the N. American genera Rehnia Caudell and Neobarrettia Rehn. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology University of Michigan, 588, 1–16. Available at http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/57026
  • 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]
  • 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
  • Wang, J. & Shi, F. (2005) A taxonomic review of the genus Hexacenthrus [Hexacentrus] Serville from China (Orthoptera: Conocephalidae). Acta Entomologica Sinica, 48(2), 242–246.
  • 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
  • Storozhenko, S.Y., Kim, T. & Jeon, M.-J. (2015) Monograph of Korean Orthoptera. National Institute of Biological Resources, Incheon, 377 pp.
  • Guo, H.-F., Guan, B., Shi, F. & Zhou, Z.-J. (2016) DNA Barcoding of genus Hexacentrus in China reveals cryptic diversity within Hexacentrus japonicus (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae). ZooKeys, 596, 53–63. Available at http://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=8669
  • Farooqi, M.K. & Usmani, M.K. (2018) A new species and a new record of genus Hexacentrus Serville, 1831 (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Hexacentrinae) from India. Zootaxa, 4526(4), 547–560.
  • Ghosh, A., Jaiswara, R., Monaal, Sabharwal, S., Dasoju, V., Bhattacharjee, A. & Rajaraman, B.K. (2023) Description of three new species of predatory genus Hexacentrus (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) from India, with bioacoustic and morphological characterizations. Zootaxa, 5249(3), 335–356.
  • Tiwari, C. & Diwakar, S. (2023) The katydid country: bioacoustics and ecology of tettigoniid communities from the Indian subcontinent. Bioacoustics, 32(1), 48–72.
  • Tiwari, C. & Diwakar, S. (2024) The orchestra nocturne: description for six new katydid species from India (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae). Zootaxa, 5405(2), 227–245. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5405.2.4
  • Kim, G., Kim, D.-Y., Kim, T. & Shin, S. (2024) Taxonomic review of the genus Hexacentrus Serville, 1831 (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) in Korea: An integrative study to confirm cryptic species. Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology, 27(2), 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aspen.2024.102249
  • Morris, G.K., Ingrisch, S., Willemse, F.M.H., Willemse, L., De Luca, P.A. & Klimas, D.E. (2025) Stridulation songs of some Tettigoniidae (Ensifera, Orthoptera) from Papua New Guinea. Zootaxa, 5600(1), 1–81. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5600.1.1

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

From ἑξα (six) and κέντρον (spike, spur), alluding to the two spines on each pro-, meso- and metasternum.

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Genus1045
Species3401549
Subspecies2057