Rhinoteratura is a genus of Asian bush crickets belonging to the tribe Meconematini in the new subtribe Meconematina. The genus was erected by AV Gorochov in 1993 as a subgenus of Leptoteratura (Rhinoteratura);[1] he uprated it to genus level in 2022.[2] Species are recorded from Japan, China (including Taiwan), Vietnam, and west Malesia (but this may be incomplete).[3]

Rhinoteratura
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Ensifera
Family: Tettigoniidae
Subfamily: Meconematinae
Tribe: Meconematini
Genus: Rhinoteratura
Gorochov, 1993
Synonyms

Leptoteratura (Rhinoteratura) Gorochov, 1993

Species edit

The Orthoptera Species File lists the following:[3]

  1. Rhinoteratura capreola (Redtenbacher, 1891)
  2. Rhinoteratura chaseni (Karny, 1926) (synonym Leptoteratura borneoensis (Jin, 1995))
  3. Rhinoteratura chela (Tan, Gorochov & Wahab, 2017)
  4. Rhinoteratura kailingensis (Jin, 2020)
  5. Rhinoteratura ketambe Gorochov, 2022
  6. Rhinoteratura lamellata (Mao & Shi, 2007)
  7. Rhinoteratura pseudocapreola Gorochov, 2022
  8. Rhinoteratura pulchra (Gorochov, 2008)
  9. Rhinoteratura raoani (Gorochov, 2008)
  10. Rhinoteratura sakaii (Jin, 2020)
  11. Rhinoteratura sharovi (Gorochov, 1993)
    - type species (as Leptoteratura sharovi Gorochov) locality: near Tam Dao, Vinh Phu Province, Vietnam
  12. Rhinoteratura symmetrica (Yamasaki, 1988)
  13. Rhinoteratura uniformis (Gorochov, 2008)

References edit

  1. ^ Gorochov AV (1993) Zoosystematica Rossica 2(1): 89. link to AVG papers
  2. ^ Gorochov AV (2022) Far Eastern Entomologist 459: 19; link.
  3. ^ a b Orthoptera Species File (Version 5.0/5.0: retrieved 29 August 2022)

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