Tetrigidae
Sign in to saveTetrigidae is an ancient family in the order Orthoptera, which also includes similar families such as crickets, grasshoppers, and their allies. Species within the Tetrigidae are variously called groundhoppers, pygmy grasshoppers, pygmy devils or (mostly historical) "grouse locusts".
Taxonomy · GBIF
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderOrthoptera
- FamilyTetrigidae
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20 sectionsContents
- Diagnostic characteristics
- General biology
- Etymology
- Subfamilies, tribes and selected genera
- Subfamily [[Batrachideinae]]<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Kasalo |first=Niko |last2=Brouste |first2=Damien |last3=Desutter-Grandcolas |first3=Laure |last4=Hervé |first4=Christophe |last5=Bogić |first5=Domagoj |last6=Skejo |first6=Josip |date=2025-06-27 |title=Atlas of New Caledonian Tetrigidae with preliminary suprageneric classification of Batrachideinae |url=https://doi.org/10.5252/zoosystema2025v47a18 |journal=Zoosystema |volume=47 |issue=18 |doi=10.5252/zoosystema2025v47a18 |issn=1280-9551|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
- Subfamily [[Cladonotinae]]
- Subfamily Criotettiginae<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Subedi |first=Madan |last2=Kasalo |first2=Niko |last3=Skejo |first3=Josip |date=2025-09 |title=Definition of the pygmy grasshopper subfamily Criotettiginae (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae) with a preliminary catalogue of genera |url=https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcz.2025.08.003 |journal=Zoologischer Anzeiger |volume=318 |pages=133–151 |doi=10.1016/j.jcz.2025.08.003 |issn=0044-5231|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
- Criotettigini
- Thoradontini
- Criotettiginae: tribe unassigned
- Subfamily [[Guntheritettiginae]]
- Subfamily Lophotettiginae<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Kasalo |first=Niko |last2=Husemann |first2=Martin |last3=van de Kamp |first3=Thomas |last4=Skejo |first4=Josip |date=2024-05-28 |title=Description of Phelene reinschmidti from Ecuador with notes on the subfamily Lophotettiginae (Orthoptera, Tetrigidae) |url=https://doi.org/10.3897/evolsyst.8.124285 |journal=Evolutionary Systematics |volume=8 |issue=1 |pages=119–125 |doi=10.3897/evolsyst.8.124285 |doi-access=free|issn=2535-0730}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Kasalo |first=Niko |last2=Bertner |first2=Paul |last3=González de Rueda |first3=Javier Aznar |last4=Skejo |first4=Josip |date=2022-06-30 |title=The True Nature of the Genus Lophotettix Hancock, 1909 (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae): A Brief Taxonomic Revision |url=https://doi.org/10.3161/00034541anz2022.72.2.006 |journal=Annales Zoologici |volume=72 |issue=2 |doi=10.3161/00034541anz2022.72.2.006 |issn=0003-4541|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
- Subfamily [[Metrodorinae]] <ref>{{Cite journal |last=Kasalo |first=Niko |last2=Yong |first2=Sheyla |last3=Rebrina |first3=Fran |last4=Skejo |first4=Josip |date=2023-07-28 |title=Definition of the tribe Metrodorini (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae) with notes on biogeography and evolution of Metrodorinae and Cladonotinae |url=https://doi.org/10.37520/aemnp.2023.010 |journal=Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae |pages=187–193 |doi=10.37520/aemnp.2023.010 |issn=1804-6487}}</ref>
- Subfamily [[Scelimeninae]]
- Subfamily [[Tetriginae]]
- Subfamily [[Tripetalocerinae]]
- Subfamily unassigned
- Xistrellini
- References
- External links
Tetrigidae is an ancient family in the order Orthoptera, which also includes similar families such as crickets, grasshoppers, and their allies. Species within the Tetrigidae are variously called groundhoppers, pygmy grasshoppers, pygmy devils or (mostly historical) "grouse locusts".
==Diagnostic characteristics== thumb|left|A typical Tetrigid species that commonly inhabits arid banks of water bodies in Southern Africa. Lateral aspect, showing how the pronotum covers the hind-wings. The vestigial [[tegmen is visible just above the anterior coxa.]] thumb|left|Tetrigidae Dorsal aspect. The same specimen from above. In both pictures note the unusually heavy structure of the Anatomical terms of location|posterior femur, and the correspondingly massive pulley-like femoro-tibial joint, similar to the anatomy of the [[Tridactylidae.]]