Biology:Drymadusa

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Short description: Genus of cricket-like animals

Drymadusa
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Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Ensifera
Family: Tettigoniidae
Subfamily: Tettigoniinae
Tribe: Drymadusini
Genus: Drymadusa
Stein, 1860
Synonyms

Drymadura Werner, 1933

Drymadusa is a monotypic genus of bush crickets named by Johann Philipp Emil Friedrich Stein in 1860;[1] it is the type genus of the tribe Drymadusini, which was erected by Boris Uvarov in 1924.[2] Now containing the single species Drymadusa dorsalis,[3] it previously included others moved to genera such as Afrodrymadusa, Anadrymadusa and Paradrymadusa.[4]

Subspecies

The Orthoptera Species File[3] includes the single species Drymadusa dorsalis (Brullé, 1832) which has been recorded from Greece, Turkey and Iraq. There are three subspecies:

  1. D. dorsalis dorsalis (Brullé, 1832)
  2. D. dorsalis grandis Karabag, 1961
  3. D. dorsalis limbata Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1882 (previously considered a separate species)

File:BioAcoustica 569 16 Drymadusa dorsalis 715r3.flac

References

  1. Stein JPEF (1860) Eine neue europäische Heuschrecken-Gattung. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 4: 257–259.
  2. Uvarov BP (1924) Notes on the Orthoptera in the British Museum, 3. Some less known or new genera and species of subfamilies Tettigoniidae and Decticinae. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 3–4: 492–537.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Orthoptera Species File: genus Drymadusa Stein, 1860 (retrieved 28 April 2023)
  4. Karabag T (1961) Revision of Drymadusa Stein and related genera (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), entomology 11(1): 1–42.

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q10477148 entry