Colossopus

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Colossopus
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Colossopus grandidieri
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Ensifera
Family: Tettigoniidae
Subfamily: Conocephalinae
Tribe: Euconchophorini
Genus: Colossopus
Saussure, 1899
Synonyms

Collosopus Karny, 1907

Colossopus [1] is a genus of bush crickets in the tribe Euconchophorini, belonging to the 'conehead' subfamily Conocephalinae. [2] This genus is endemic to Madagascar. [3]

Species

The Orthoptera Species File lists: [2]

  1. Colossopus grandidieri Saussure, 1899 - type species
  2. Colossopus parvicavus Ünal & Beccaloni, 2017
  3. Colossopus redtenbacheri Brongniart, 1897

References

  1. Saussure (1899) Abh. Senckenb. Natforsch. Ges. 21: 627.
  2. 1 2 "genus Colossopus Saussure, 1899: Orthoptera Species File". orthoptera.speciesfile.org. Retrieved 2021-10-03.
  3. Ünal, Mustafa; Beccaloni, George W. (2017-10-31). "Revision of the Madagascan genera Oncodopus Brongniart and Colossopus Saussure (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Conocephalinae; Euconchophorini), with description of Malagasopus gen. nov". Zootaxa. 4341 (2): 193–228. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4341.2.2. ISSN   1175-5334. PMID   29245685.