Thaumaspis

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Thaumaspis
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Ensifera
Family: Tettigoniidae
Tribe: Meconematini
Genus: Thaumaspis
Bolívar, 1900 [1]
Type species
Thaumaspis trigonurus
Bolívar, 1900

Thaumaspis is a genus of Asian bush crickets belonging to the tribe Meconematini in the subfamily Meconematinae. The known distribution is from India, southern China, and Malesia (Java), but records are probably incomplete. [2]

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Species

The Orthoptera Species File lists the following subgenera and species: [2]

Subgenus IsothaumaspisGorochov, 1993
  1. Thaumaspis forcipatus Bolívar, 1900
Subgenus ThaumaspisBolívar, 1900
  1. Thaumaspis castetsi Gorochov, 1993
  2. Thaumaspis henanensis Liu & Wang, 1998
  3. Thaumaspis longipes Bolívar, 1900
  4. Thaumaspis montanus Bey-Bienko, 1957
  5. Thaumaspis siccifolii (Karny, 1922)
  6. Thaumaspis trigonurus Bolívar, 1900 – type species (locality: Tamil Nadu, India)

The genus Pseudothaumaspis , previously placed here as a subgenus of Thaumaspis, is now considered a separate genus. [3] [4] Other species transferred to other genera include Athaumaspis bifurcatus.

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References

  1. Bolívar I (1900[1899]) Ann. Soc. ent. Fr. 68: 768.
  2. 1 2 Orthoptera Species File: genus Thaumaspis Bolívar, 1900 (Version 5.0/5.0: retrieved 11 August 2022)
  3. Cigliano, M. M.; Braun, H.; Eades, D. C.; Otte, D. "genus Pseudothaumaspis Gorochov, 1998". orthoptera.speciesfile.org. Orthoptera Species File. Retrieved 28 December 2018.
  4. Gorochov. 1998. New and little known Meconematinae of the tribes Meconematini and Phlugidini (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae). Zoosystematica Rossica 7(1):115