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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) In Étude phylogénétique, biogéographique et écologique des Grylloidea néotropicaux (Insectes, Orthoptères). Doctoral thesis, University of Paris. 347 pp.
  • 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.

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RankExtantFossilInvalid Total
genus1012
superspecies4048
species220325
subspecies2013