Erianthus is a genus of grasshoppers restricted to Southeast Asia. They occur in Japan, northeast India, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, South China including Hong Kong, and extend east to Sumatra.[citation needed] In the past some neotropical species were also included in the genus. They have narrow ranges and species are identifiable only by their characteristics of male and female genitalia.[1][2]
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| Unknown Erianthus species from Malaysia | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Orthoptera |
| Suborder: | Caelifera |
| Family: | Chorotypidae |
| Subfamily: | Erianthinae |
| Genus: | Erianthus Stål, 1875 |
| Type species | |
| Mastax guttata Westwood, 1841
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The genus was erected in 1875 by Swedish entomologist Carl Stål in his Observations Orthopterologiques.[3] Erianthus is the family Chorotypidae and is the largest genus in the subfamily Erianthinae by number of species.[4] The type species is Mastax guttata (now Erianthus guttatus).[5]
Species edit
As of 2018[update], species in Erianthus include:[5]
- Erianthus angulatus Ingrisch & Willemse, 1988 – Thailand
- Erianthus armatus Descamps, 1975 – Vietnam
- Erianthus bolivari Descamps, 1975 – Indochina
- Erianthus delattrei Descamps, 1975 – Cambodia
- Erianthus dohrni Bolívar, 1914 – Vietnam
- Erianthus fruhstorferi Bolívar, 1930 – Thailand
- Erianthus guttatus (Westwood, 1841) – Malesia
- Erianthus inhamatus Ingrisch & Willemse, 1988 – Thailand
- Erianthus malcolmi Bolívar, 1903 – Malaysia
- Erianthus manueli Ingrisch & Willemse, 1988 – Thailand
- Erianthus nipponensis Rehn, 1904 – Japan
- Erianthus pyramidalis Ingrisch & Willemse, 1988 – Thailand
- Erianthus rehni Descamps, 1975 – Thailand
- Erianthus serratus Ingrisch & Willemse, 1988 – Thailand
- Erianthus sukhothaiensis Descamps, 1981 – Thailand
- Erianthus versicolor Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1898 – Indochina
- Erianthus vitalisi Bolívar, 1914 – Indochina
References edit
- ^ Ingrisch, S.; Willemse, F. (1988). "Revision of the genus Erianthus Stal in Thailand and Malaysia (Orthoptera: Eumastacoidea: Erianthinae)". Entomol. Scand. 19: 87–101.
- ^ Descamps M (1975). "Revision du genre Erianthus Stål, 1875 (Orth. Eumastacoidea, Erianthinae)". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. Nouvelle Série. 11 (1): 91–136.
- ^ Stål (1875). "Observations Orthopterologiques". Bihang Kungl. Svenska Vet. Akad. Handl. 3 (14). Retrieved 29 December 2018.
- ^ Cigliano, M. M.; Braun, H.; Eades, D. C.; Otte, D. "subfamily Erianthinae Karsch, 1889". orthoptera.speciesfile.org. Orthoptera Species File. Retrieved 29 December 2018.
- ^ a b Cigliano, M. M.; Braun, H.; Eades, D. C.; Otte, D. "genus Erianthus Stål, 1875". orthoptera.speciesfile.org. Orthoptera Species File. Retrieved 29 December 2018.