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Thoradonta

Thoradonta is an Asian genus of ground-hoppers and typical of the tribe Thoradontini.

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Thoradonta
Thoradonta nodulosa from Sumatra
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Caelifera
Family: Tetrigidae
Tribe: Thoradontini
Genus: Thoradonta
Hancock, 1909
Synonyms
  • Thoradomta Deng, 2016
  • Thoradonata Otte, 1997
  • Thoradonota Kevan, 1966
  • Thorodonota Mahmood, Maqsood & Anwar, 2004
  • Thorodonta Steinmann, 1962

Thoradonta1 is an Asian genus of ground-hoppers (Orthoptera: Caelifera) and typical of the tribe Thoradontini.

This genus contains species distributed from India to southern China, Indo-China, Malesia through to New Guinea.2

Species

The Orthoptera Species File2 lists:

  • Thoradonta apiculata Hancock, 1915
  • Thoradonta aspinosa Ingrisch, 2001
  • Thoradonta bengalensis Shishodia, 1991
  • Thoradonta butlini Blackith & Blackith, 1987
  • Thoradonta centropleura Podgornaya, 1994
  • Thoradonta dentata Hancock, 1909 - type species
  • Thoradonta dianguiensis Deng, Zheng & Wei, 2006
  • Thoradonta lancangensis Zheng, 1991
  • Thoradonta lativertexoides Zha & Kang, 2016
  • Thoradonta lativertex Günther, 1938
  • Thoradonta longipenna Zheng & Liang, 1991
  • Thoradonta longispina Zheng & Xie, 2005
  • Thoradonta nigrodorsalis Zheng & Liang, 1991
  • Thoradonta nodulosa Stål, 1861
  • Thoradonta novaeguineae Tumbrinck, 2018
  • Thoradonta obtusilobata Zheng, 1996
  • Thoradonta palawanica Günther, 1938
  • Thoradonta spiculoba Hancock, 1912
  • Thoradonta spiculobaoides Zha & Kang, 2016
  • Thoradonta spinata Hancock, 1909
  • Thoradonta spinata Hancock, 1909
  • Thoradonta subtruncata Gupta, Shi & Chandra, 2018
  • Thoradonta transspicula Zheng, 1996
  • Thoradonta varispina Zha & Sheng, 2016
  • Thoradonta yunnana Zheng, 1983
References

References

  1. Hancock JL (1909[1908]) Trans. Entomol. Soc. London 407.
  2. Orthoptera Species File (Version 5.0/5.0)
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