''Discotettix'' is a
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of groundhoppers (
Orthoptera
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:
Tetrigidae
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,Borror DJ, Tripp ...
) found in
Malesia
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,
Brunei
Brunei, officially Brunei Darussalam, is a country in Southeast Asia, situated on the northern coast of the island of Borneo. Apart from its coastline on the South China Sea, it is completely surrounded by the Malaysian state of Sarawak, with ...
,
Indonesia
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and the
Philippines
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; they may be known as "spiky pygmy devils". After revision, it is the type genus of the tribe
Discotettigini
Scelimeninae is a subfamily of Asian Tetrigidae, ground hoppers (Orthoptera: Caelifera).
Tribes and genera
The ''Orthoptera Species File'' lists two tribes: Discotettigini
Authority: Hancock, 1907
# ''Austrohancockia''
# ''Bidentatettix''
# ...
and now placed in the subfamily
Scelimeninae.
[Muhammad AA, Tan MK, Abdullah, Azirun, Bhaskar, Skejo (2018) ''Zootaxa'' 4485(1): 20.]
Species
The ''Orthoptera Species File''
[Orthoptera Species File (retrieved 24 August 2024)]
/ref> lists two subgenera:
;''Discotettix (Discotettix)''
# '' Discotettix aruanus''
# '' Discotettix belzebuth'' - type species (as ''D. armatus'' )
synonym: '' Discotettix adenanii''
# '' Discotettix doriae''
# '' Discotettix kirscheyi''
# '' Discotettix selysi''
synonym: '' Discotettix selangori''
# '' Discotettix sumatrensis''
;''Discotettix (Mnesarchus)''
# '' Discotettix scabridus''
''Disconius''
The species ''Disconius shelfordi'' from Borneo
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, was placed in new genus ''Disconius'' :[ having previously been described as ''Discotettix shelfordi'' .
]
References
External links
*
Images of ''Discotettix'' at iNaturalist
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Caelifera genera
Tetrigidae
Orthoptera of Asia