Biology:Discotettix
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Short description: Genus of Caelifera
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| Discotettix belzebuth | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Orthoptera |
| Suborder: | Caelifera |
| Family: | Tetrigidae |
| Tribe: | Scelimenini |
| Genus: | Discotettix Costa, 1864 |
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Mnesarchus Stål, 1877 | |
Discotettix[1] is a genus of pygmy grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae) found in Malesia, Brunei, Indonesia and the Philippines . They are commonly known as spiky pygmy devils. After revision of this genus, from being the type genus of the subfamily Discotettiginae, it is now placed in the tribe Scelimenini.[2][3]
Species
The Orthoptera Species File lists:[4]
- Discotettix (Discotettix) aruanus Skejo, Pushkar & Tumbrinck, 2022
- Discotettix (Discotettix) belzebuth (Serville, 1838) - type species (as D. armatus Costa, 1864)
- another synonym: Discotettix adenanii Mahmood, Idris & Salmah, 2007
- Discotettix (Discotettix) doriae Bolívar, 1898
- Discotettix (Discotettix) kirscheyi Skejo, Pushkar, Tumbrinck & Tan, 2022
- Discotettix (Discotettix) selysi Bolívar, 1887
- synonym: Discotettix selangori Mahmood, Idris & Salmah, 2007
- Discotettix (Discotettix) sumatrensis Skejo, Pushkar & Tumbrinck, 2022
- Discotettix (Mnesarchus) scabridus (Stål, 1877)
- Discotettix shelfordi Hancock, 1907 was previously assigned to this genus but is now moved into its own genus, Disconius Skejo, Pushkar & Tumbrinck, 2022
References
- ↑ Costa A (1864) Annu. Ist. Mus. Zool. Univ. Napoli 4: 59.
- ↑ Muhammad AA, Tan MK, Abdullah, Azirun, Bhaskar, Skejo (2018) Zootaxa 4485(1): 20.
- ↑ "Spiky pygmy devils: revision of the genus Discotettix (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae) and synonymy of Discotettiginae with Scelimeninae". Zootaxa 5217 (1). doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5217.1.1. ISSN 1175-5334. https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5217.1.1#title-0.
- ↑ Orthoptera Species File (Version 5.0/5.0)
Wikidata ☰ Q5281719 entry
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