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Typhoptera

Typhoptera is an Asian genus of bush-crickets in the tribe Cymatomerini and the subfamily Pseudophyllinae. Species are recorded from India, Indo-China and Malesia.

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Typhoptera
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Ensifera
Family: Tettigoniidae
Subfamily: Pseudophyllinae
Tribe: Cymatomerini
Genus: Typhoptera
Kirby, 1906
Type species
Pseudophyllus 4-tuberculatus
Westwood, 1848
Synonyms1
  • Capnoptera Redtenbacher, 1895
  • Capnopterodes Strand, 1926
  • Thyphoptera Zacher, 1909
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Typhoptera2 is an Asian genus of bush-crickets in the tribe Cymatomerini and the subfamily Pseudophyllinae. Species are recorded from India, Indo-China and Malesia.

Species

Species include:1

  • Typhoptera obliquevenosa Beier, 1954
  • Typhoptera pallidemaculata (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1895)
  • Typhoptera pfeifferae (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1895)
  • Typhoptera quadrituberculata (Westwood, 1848)
  • Typhoptera siamensis Karny, 1926
  • Typhoptera staudingeri (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1895)
  • Typhoptera unicolor (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1895)

Note: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Typhoptera.

References

References

  1. Cigliano, M.M.; H. Braun; D.C. Eades & D. Otte. "Typhoptera". orthoptera.speciesfile.org. Orthoptera Species File. Retrieved 10 December 2018.
  2. Kirby WF (1906) A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae) 2: 309
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