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Orthoptera Species File
genus

Agnothecous Saussure, 1878

Type

Agnotecous [sic] tapinopus Saussure, 1878 type species by original monotypy of Agnothecous Saussure, 1878

Nomenclature (21)

  • Agnothecous Saussure, 1878: 396 [536, 825].

    type species by original monotypy Agnotecous [sic] tapinopus Saussure, 1878

  • Agnotecous [sic] Saussure, 1878: 406 [546].

    type species by original monotypy Agnotecous [sic] tapinopus Saussure, 1878

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  • Agnotecous [sic] Saussure, 1878 in Tan, Malem, Legendre, Dong, Baroga-Barbecho, Yap, Wahab, Japir, Chung & Robillard, 2021
  • Agnothecous Saussure, 1878 in Le Flanchec, Salazar, Malem, Vendanger, Poirier, Dutertre, Bonillo, Chifflet-Belle, Legendre, Nattier & Robillard, 2025: 283.

Nomenclature references (19)

  • Anso, J., Barrabé, L., Desutter-Grandcolas, L., Jourdan, H., Grandcolas, P., Dong, J. & Robillard, T. (2016) Old lineage on an old island: Pixibinthus, a new cricket genus endemic to New Caledonia shed light on gryllid diversification in a hotspot of biodiversity. PLoS One, 11(3 (e0150920). Available at http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0150920
  • Chopard, L. (1938) La biologie des Orthoptères. Encyclopédie entomologique, 20(4), 541 pp.
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  • Chopard, L. (1968) Fam. Gryllidae: Subfam. Mogoplistinae, Myrmecophilinae, Scleropterinae, Cachoplistinae, Pteroplistinae, Pentacentrinae, Phalangopsinae, Trigonidiinae, Eneopterinae; Fam. Oecanthidae, Gryllotalpidae. In Orthopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 12, pp. 213–500.
  • de Saussure, H. (1878) Mélanges orthoptérologiques. VI. fascicule Gryllides. Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève, 25(2), 369–704 [505–834]. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/122148#page/525/mode/1up
  • de Saussure, H. (1897) Orthoptera. Fam. Gryllidae. Biologia Centrali-Americana, 1, 217–284. Available at http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/bca/navigation/bca_20_01_00/bca_20_01_00select.cfm
  • Desutter-Grandcolas, L. & Robillard, T. (2006) Phylogenetic systematics and evolution of Agnotecous in New Caledonia (Orthoptera: Grylloidea, Eneopteridae). Systematic Entomology, 31(1), 65–92.
  • Desutter-Grandcolas, L. (1990) Étude phylogénétique, biogéographique et écologique des Grylloidea néotropicaux (Insectes, Orthoptères). Doctoral thesis, University of Paris, 347 pp. PhD thesis.
  • Desutter-Grandcolas, L. (1997) Le peuplement de grillons (Orthoptères Grylloidea) des sous-bois forestiers du Col d'Amieu (Nouvelle-Calédonie). II. Analyse systématique. Memoirs du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Nouvelle Série. Série A. Zoologie, 171, 137–163.
  • Desutter-Grandcolas, L., Anso, J. & Jourdan, H. (2016) Crickets of New Caledonia (Insecta, Orthoptera, Grylloidea): a key to genera, with diagnoses of extant genera and descriptions of new taxa. Zoosystema, 38(4), 405–452. Available at http://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques/zoosystema/38/4/les-grillons-de-nouvelle-caledonie-insecta-orthoptera-grylloidea-cle-d-identification-des-genres-diagnoses-des-genres-existants-et-description-de-nouveaux-taxons
  • 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]
  • 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
  • Le Flanchec, T., Salazar, K., Malem, J., Vendanger, J., Poirier, E., Dutertre, V., Bonillo, C., Chifflet-Belle, P., Legendre, F., Nattier, R. & Robillard, T. (2025) Early colonization of New Caledonia by ultrasonic crickets from New Guinea (Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Eneopterinae): Historical biogeography and description of a new genus. Systematic Entomology, 50(2), 269–295. https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12656
  • Nattier, R., Grandcolas, P., Elias, M., Desutter-Grandcolas, L., Jourdan, H., Couloux, A. & Robillard, T. (2012) Secondary sympatry caused by range expansion informs on the dynamics of microendemism in a biodiversity hotspot. PLoS One. Available at http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0048047
  • Neave, S.A. (1939) In Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in Zoology from the 10th ed. of Linnaeus 1758 to the end of 1935. The Zoological Society of London, London. 957 pp.
  • Obenberger, J. (1955) Entomologie II. Czechoslov. Acad. Sci. Praha, 1–725 pp. [in Czech]
  • Otte, D. (1994) Orthoptera Species File 1. Crickets (Grylloidea). The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 120 pp.
  • Robillard, T. & Desutter-Grandcolas, L. (2008) Clarification of the taxonomy of extant crickets of the subfamily Eneopterinae (Orthoptera: Grylloidea; Gryllidae). Zootaxa, 1789, 66–68.
  • Robillard, T., Nattier, R. & Desutter-Grandcolas, L. (2010) New species of the New Caledonian endemic genus Agnotecous (Orthoptera, Grylloidea, Eneopterinae, Lebinthini). Zootaxa, 2559, 17–35.
  • Tan, M.K., Malem, J., Legendre, F., Dong, J., Baroga-Barbecho, J.B., Yap, S.A., Wahab, R.A., Japir, R., Chung, A.Y.C. & Robillard, T. (2021) Phylogeny, systematics and evolution of calling songs of the Lebinthini crickets (Orthoptera, Grylloidea, Eneopterinae), with description of two new genera. Systematic Entomology. Available at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/syen.12510

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

From άγνωστος (unknown) and ᾰ̓κοή (ear), referring to unknown ear, because of the type specimen's lacking forelegs.

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
superspecies4048
species220729
subspecies2013