Metrodorinae[1] is a subfamily of groundhoppers or pygmy grasshoppers. There are at least 90 genera and more than 590 described species, found in South America, Africa and Asia.[2][3]

Metrodorinae
Rostella phyllocera (Borneo)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Caelifera
Infraorder: Acrididea
Superfamily: Tetrigoidea
Family: Tetrigidae
Subfamily: Metrodorinae
Bolívar, 1887
Tribes
Synonyms
  • Amorphopinae Günther, 1939
  • Metrodorae Bolívar, 1887
  • Metrodoridae Bolívar, 1887
  • Metrodorini Bolívar, 1887

Genera edit

 
Holocerus taurus (with red mites, Madagascar)

The Orthoptera Species File[3] lists:

Tribe Amorphopini Günther, 1939

Tribe Cleostratini Hancock, 1907

Tribe Clinophaestini Storozhenko, 2013

Tribe Miriatrini Cadena-Castañeda & Cardona, 2015

Tribe Ophiotettigini Tumbrinck & Skejo, 2017

Tribe Unassigned

References edit

  1. ^ Bolívar I (1887) Ann. Soc. Entom. Belgique 31:185.
  2. ^ "Metrodorinae Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-10-15.
  3. ^ a b Otte, Daniel; Cigliano, Maria Marta; Braun, Holger; Eades, David C. (2019). "subfamily Metrodorinae Bolívar, 1887". Orthoptera species file online, Version 5.0. Retrieved 2019-07-02.

Further reading edit

  • Otte, Daniel (1997). Poole, Robert W.; Gentili, Patricia (eds.). Orthoptera. Nomina Insecta Nearctica: A Check List of the Insects of North America. Vol. 4: Non–Holometabolous Orders. Entomological Information Services. pp. 581–634. ISBN 978-1-889002-04-0.