Tripetalocera

Tripetalocera
Tripetalocera ferruginea pair
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Caelifera
Family: Tetrigidae
Subfamily: Tripetalocerinae
Tribe: Tripetalocerini
Genus:
Westwood, 1834
Species:
T. ferruginea
Binomial name
Tripetalocera ferruginea
Westwood, 1834

Tripetalocera is a genus of Asian groundhoppers (Orthoptera: Caelifera) in the subfamily Tripetalocerinae Bolívar, 1887;[1] the genus was described in 1834 by John Obadiah Westwood.[2]

Species

Tripetalocera is now considered monotypic with Tripetalocera ferruginea Westwood the type species. To date, it has a discontinuous known distribution in western India and Malesia.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Orthoptera Species File Tripetalocera Westwood, 1834 (retrieved 29 August 2024)
  2. ^ Westwood JO (1834) Insectorum Arachnoidumque novorum Decades duo. Zool. Jour. , 5, 440–453, pl.22, Fig. 3. Available here
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