Tettigoniinae

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Tettigoniinae
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Tettigonia viridissima: the great green bush-cricket
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Ensifera
Family: Tettigoniidae
Subfamily: Tettigoniinae
Stoll, 1787
Tribes & genera

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The Tettigoniinae are a subfamily of bush crickets or katydids, which contains hundreds of species in about twelve tribes.[1]

Distribution

The greatest diversity is in the Palaearctic region[1] and many of the familiar European species of bush crickets (e.g. in the genera Metrioptera, Pholidoptera, Platycleis and the type genus Tettigonia) are in this subfamily. They are attributed to an ancient Gondwana fauna, which is reflected in the known distribution of the southern African genera, which are in turn related to Australian and North American genera in the tribe Nedubini (e.g. Neduba and Aglaothorax).[2] Extant genera are native to: the Americas (where they may be called shield-backed katydids[citation needed]), Australia, southern Africa, Europe (especially Mediterranean), and the Near East. The faunas of the Neotropics and Australia are more closely related to one other than to those of southern Africa and Madagascar (in tribe Arytropteridini), although the three faunas are related.

Tribes and genera

In the Orthoptera Species File, the following are listed:[1]

Arytropteridini

Auth. Caudell, 1908

Ctenodecticini

Auth. Caudell, 1908

Decticini

Auth. Herman, 1874 (synonyms Decticidae or Dectici Herman, 1874)

Drymadusini

Auth. Uvarov, 1924

Gampsocleidini

Auth. Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893

Glyphonotini

Auth. Tarbinsky, 1932 (synonyms: Glyphonotinae Tarbinsky, 1932; Glyphontini)

Nedubini

Auth. Gorochov, 1988

Onconotini

Auth. Tarbinsky, 1940

Pholidopterini

Auth. Ramme, 1951

Plagiostirini

Auth. Storozhenko, 1994

Platycleidini

Auth. Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893

Tettigoniini

Auth. Krauss, 1902

Tribe incertae sedis

Examples and Gallery

The Mormon cricket, actually a katydid and member of this subfamily, has been known to cause extensive damage when it breeds in large numbers in cropland. 123 species are native to North America.

References

  1. ^ a b c Orthoptera Species File: subfamily Tettigoniinae Krauss, 1902 (retrieved 17 November 2021)
  2. ^ Rentz, D. C. F. (1988). "The shield-backed katylids of Southern Africa: their taxonomy, ecology and relationships to the faunas of Australia and South America (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Tettigoniinae)". Invertebrate Systematics. 2 (2): 223. doi:10.1071/IT9880223. Retrieved 25 October 2017.

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