Guntheritettiginae is a subfamily of
groundhopper
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, Trippl ...
s (
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 – gras ...
:
Caelifera
The Caelifera are a suborder of orthopteran insects. They include the grasshoppers and grasshopper-like insects, as well as other superfamilies classified with them: the ground-hoppers ( Tetrigoidea) and pygmy mole crickets ( Tridactyloidea). ...
) erected by Cadena-Castañeda ''et al.'' in 2025.
[Cadena-Castañeda OJ, Quintana-Arias RF, Infante IC, Silva DSM, Tavares GC (2025) Studies on pygmy grasshoppers: On the current Metrodorinae sensu lato classification (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae) with emphasis on American and Malagasy taxa. ''Zootaxa'', 5597(1), 1–265]
DOI
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The subfamily and type genus ''Guntheritettix'' were named in honour of Klaus Günther
Klaus is a German, Dutch and Scandinavian given name and surname. It originated as a short form of Nikolaus, a German form of the Greek given name Nicholas.
Notable persons whose family name is Klaus
* Billy Klaus (1928–2006), American baseb ...
, an authority on Tetrigidae, who had originally placed ''G. formidabilis'' in the genus ''Notocerus''.[
]
Tribes and genera
Cadena-Castañeda ''et al.'' placed genera into two tribes; the ''Orthoptera Species File''[Orthoptera Species File: subfamily Guntheritettiginae Cadena-Castañeda, 2025]
(retrieved 14 July 2025). includes the following, all found on Madagascar or surrounding Indian Ocean islands:
Guntheritettigini
# '' Andriana (insect)''
# ''Bara'': monotypic '' Bara turgida''
# ''Eurybiades'': monotypic '' Eurybiades cerastes''
# '' Guntheritettix'' : monotypic ''G. formidabilis''
# ''Holocerus'' : monotypic '' Holocerus lucifer''
# '' Hybotettix''
# '' Notocerus''
# '' Rehnitettix''
# '' Silanotettix''
Tumbrinckitettigini
# '' Charagotettix''
# '' Cryptotettix''
# '' Hovacris''
# '' Oxytettix''
# '' Tumbrinckitettix''
References
External links
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Images at iNaturalist
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Orthoptera subfamilies
Tetrigidae
Orthoptera of Africa
Taxa described in 2025