Conocephalinae, meaning "conical head", is an
Orthoptera
Orthoptera () is an order of insects that comprises the grasshoppers, locusts, and crickets, including closely related insects, such as the bush crickets or katydids and wētā. The order is subdivided into two suborders: Caelifera – grassho ...
n subfamily in the family
Tettigoniidae
Insects in the family Tettigoniidae are commonly called katydids (especially in North America), or bush crickets. They have previously been known as "long-horned grasshoppers". More than 8,000 species are known. Part of the suborder Ensifera, t ...
.
Genera
The Orthoptera Species File lists the following subtribes and genera:
[Orthoptera Species File (retrieved 28 March 2010; partially checked 11 March 2021)]
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Tribe
Agraeciini
Agraeciini is a large tribe of bush crickets or katydids in the conehead subfamily, Conocephalinae.Redtenbacher (1891) ''Verh. der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellsch. Wien'' 41: 432.
Subtribes and genera
The ''Orthoptera Species File'' lists:
S ...
Mostly South America, Africa, South-East Asia and Australia; Auth: Redtenbacher, 1891
* subtribe Agraeciina Redtenbacher, 1891
** '' Agraecia'' Serville, 1831
* subtribe Eumegalodontina Brongniart, 1892
** '' Lesina'' Walker, 1869
* subtribe Liarina Ingrisch, 1998
** ''Labugama
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See also
*List of towns in Western Province, Sri Lanka
Western Province is a province of Sri Lanka, containing the Colomb ...
'' Henry, 1932
** '' Liara'' Redtenbacher, 1891
** ''Macroxiphus
''Macroxiphus''Pictet (1888) ''Mem. Soc. Phys. Hist. Nat. Geneve'' 30(6): 52. is a small genus of bush crickets or katydids distributed in Southeast Asia and Micronesia. The nymphs (immature stages) of the insects mimic ants.
Species
Species i ...
'' Pictet, 1888
* subtribe Oxylakina Ingrisch, 1998
** '' Oxylakis'' Redtenbacher, 1891
* subtribe Salomonina Brongniart, 1897
** '' Salomona'' Blanchard, 1853
* subtribe undetermined (many genera)
** ''Coptaspis
''Coptaspis'' is a genus of bush crickets in the tribe Agraeciini
Agraeciini is a large tribe of bush crickets or katydids in the conehead subfamily, Conocephalinae.Redtenbacher (1891) ''Verh. der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellsch. Wien'' 41 ...
'' Redtenbacher, 1891
Tribe Armadillagraeciini
Australia; Auth: Rentz, Su & Ueshima, 2012[
# '' Armadillagraecia'' Rentz, Su, Ueshima & Robinson, 2010
# '' Kapalgagraecia'' Rentz, Su, Ueshima & Robinson, 2010
# '' Lichenagraecia'' Rentz, Su & Ueshima, 2012
]
Tribe Cestrophorini
South America; Auth: Gorochov, 2015[
# '' Acanthacara'' Scudder, 1869
# '' Cestrophorus'' Redtenbacher, 1891
]
Tribe Coniungopterini
Mostly South America and Australia; Auth: Rentz & Gurney, 1985[
# '' Coniungoptera'' Rentz & Gurney, 1985
# '' Metholce'' Walker, 1871
# '']Veria
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'' Walker, 1869
Tribe Conocephalini
Auth: Burmeister, 1838
;subtribe Karniellina Hemp & Heller, 2010 (Africa)
* '' Acanthoscirtes'' Hemp, 2012
* '' Chortoscirtes'' Hemp, 2010
* '' Fulvoscirtes'' Hemp, 2012
* '' Karniella'' Rehn, 1914
* '' Melanoscirtes'' Hemp, 2010
* '' Naskreckiella'' Ünal, 2005
* '' Phlesirtes'' Bolívar, 1922
;subtribe not placed (global distribution)
* '' Conanalus'' Tinkham, 1943
* ''Conocephalus
''Conocephalus'' is a genus of bush-crickets, known as coneheads (a term also sometimes applied to members of the related genus '' Ruspolia''). It was described by Carl Peter Thunberg in 1815.
Subgenera and species
The ''Orthoptera Species Fil ...
'' Thunberg, 1815Orthoptera species file (retrieved 3 January 2018)
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** subgenus '' Amurocephalus'' Storozhenko, 2004: ''A. chinensis'' (Redtenbacher, 1891)
** subgenus ''Anisoptera
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'' Latreille, 1829
** subgenus '' Aphauropus: A. leptopterus'' Rehn & Hebard, 1915
** subgenus '' Chloroxiphidion'' Hebard, 1922
** subgenus ''Conocephalus
''Conocephalus'' is a genus of bush-crickets, known as coneheads (a term also sometimes applied to members of the related genus '' Ruspolia''). It was described by Carl Peter Thunberg in 1815.
Subgenera and species
The ''Orthoptera Species Fil ...
'' Thunberg, 1815
** subgenus '' Dicellurina'' Rehn & Hebard, 1938
** subgenus '' Megalotheca'' Karny, 1907
** subgenus '' Opeastylus'' Rehn & Hebard, 1915
** subgenus '' Perissacanthus'' Rehn & Hebard, 1915
* '' Elasmometopus'' Chopard, 1952
* '' Enoplocephalacris'' Chopard, 1952
* '' Euxiphidion'' Bruner, 1915
* '' Fatuhivella'' Hebard, 1935
* '' Lipotactomimus'' Naskrecki, 2000
* '' Luzoniella'' Karny, 1926
* '' Nukuhivella'' Hebard, 1935
* '' Odontoxiphidium'' Morse, 1901
* '' Orchelimum'' Serville, 1838
* '' Paulianacris'' Chopard, 1952
* '' Thyridorhoptrum'' Rehn & Hebard, 1915
* '' Tympanotriba'' Piza, 1971 - monotypic: ''T. vittata Piza, 1971
* '' Xiphelimum'' Caudell, 1906 - monotypic: ''X. amplipennis'' Caudell, 1906
Tribe Copiphorini
Worldwide; Auth: Karny 1912; selected genera:
* '' Banza'' Walker, 1870
* '' Belocephalus'' Scudder, 1875
* '' Copiphora'' Serville, 1831
* '' Euconocephalus'' Karny, 1907
* ''Lanista
''Lanista'' is a genus of African bush-crickets (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) in the subfamily Conocephalinae.
Species
* ''Lanista affinis'' Bolívar, 1906
* ''Lanista annulicornis'' (Walker, 1869)
* ''Lanista crassicollis'' Bolívar, 1906
* ''L ...
'' Bolívar, 1890
* '' Moncheca'' Walker, 1869
* '' Neoconocephalus'' Karny, 1907
* '' Panacanthus'' Walker, 1869
* '' Pseudorhynchus'' Serville, 1838
* '' Pyrgocorypha'' Stål, 1873
* ''Ruspolia
''Ruspolia''Schulthess (1898) ''Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova'' 39: 207. is a genus of bush crickets in the subfamily Conocephalinae. This genus includes species that may be called 'cone-heads', but the name has also been used for ''Conoceph ...
'' Schulthess Schindler, 1898
* '' Xestophrys'' Redtenbacher, 1891
Tribe Euconchophorini
Madagascar; Auth: Gorochov, 1988[
# '' Amblylakis'' Redtenbacher, 1891
# '' Colossopus'' Saussure, 1899
# '' Euconchophora'' Brongniart, 1897
# '' Malagasopus'' Ünal & Beccaloni, 2017
# '' Odontolakis'' Redtenbacher, 1891
# '' Oncodopus'' Brongniart, 1897
]
Tribe undetermined
# '' Ebneria'' Karny, 1920 - China[
# '' Elasmometopus'' Chopard, 1952 - Madagascar
# '' Graminofolium'' Nickle, 2007 - Neotropical
# '' Nemoricultrix'' Mello-Leitão, 1940 - Neotropical
# '' Paulianacris'' Chopard, 1952 - Madagascar
]
References
* Gorochov, A.V., 2011: Taxonomy of the katydids (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) from east Asia and adjacent islands. Communication 2. Far Eastern Entomologist 227: 1-12.
* Ingrisch, S. 2015. A revision of the Axylus group of Agraeciini (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Conocephalinae) and of some other species formerly included in Nicsara or Anthracites Revision of the Indo-Australian Conocephalinae, part 3. Zootaxa 4046 (1): 1–308.
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