Thaumaspis
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Scientific classification 
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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
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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]
Species
[edit]The Orthoptera Species File lists the following subgenera and species:[2]
- Subgenus Isothaumaspis Gorochov, 1993
- Thaumaspis forcipatus Bolívar, 1900
- Subgenus Thaumaspis Bolívar, 1900
- Thaumaspis castetsi Gorochov, 1993
- Thaumaspis henanensis Liu & Wang, 1998
- Thaumaspis longipes Bolívar, 1900
- Thaumaspis montanus Bey-Bienko, 1957
- Thaumaspis siccifolii (Karny, 1922)
- 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.
References
[edit]- ^ Bolívar I (1900[1899]) Ann. Soc. ent. Fr. 68: 768.
- ^ a b Orthoptera Species File: genus Thaumaspis Bolívar, 1900 (Version 5.0/5.0: retrieved 11 August 2022)
- ^ Cigliano, M. M.; Braun, H.; Eades, D. C.; Otte, D. "genus Pseudothaumaspis Gorochov, 1998". orthoptera.speciesfile.org. Orthoptera Species File. Retrieved 28 December 2018.
- ^ Gorochov. 1998. New and little known Meconematinae of the tribes Meconematini and Phlugidini (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae). Zoosystematica Rossica 7(1):115
External links
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Data related to Thaumaspis at Wikispecies
