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subfamily Lophotettiginae Hancock, 1909

• Distribution:
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• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial. Herbivorous, feedinng mostly on algae and bryophytes; terrestrial, riparian and semi-aquatic species.
• Citations (6):
  • Steinmann. 1969. Folia Ent. Hungarica 22(19):383
  • Otte, D. 1997. Orthoptera Species File 6:33
  • Tumbrinck, Josef. 2014. Biodiversity, Biogeography and Nature Conservation in Wallacea and New Guinea 2:349
  • Cadena-Castañeda & Cardona. 2015. Introducción a los Saltamontes de Colombia (Orthoptera: Caelifera: Acrididea: Acridomorpha, Tetrigoidea & Tridactyloidea) 452-453 >> Note: comprising only Lophotettix
  • Silva, D.S.M., Cadena-Castañeda, M.R. Pereira, De Domenico & Sperber. 2019. Zootaxa 4686(3):346–360
  • Cadena-Castañeda, Arango Díaz, D.S.M. Silva, Buitrago, A. García García & Josef Tumbrinck. 2021. Zootaxa 4980(2):357 >> Note: emended diagnosis, key to genera and species
• Type genus:  Lophotettix Hancock, 1909; priority for family-group names based on Lophotettix dates from Lophotettigiae Hancock, 1909.  First use as Lophotettiginae by Steinmann, 1969.

• synonym Lophotettigiae Hancock, 1909
• genus Lophotettix Hancock, 1909
• subgenus Corticotettix Kasalo & Skejo, 2022
• subgenus Lophotettix Hancock, 1909
• genus Phelene Bolívar, 1906
• synonym Gladiotettix Hancock, 1907
• synonym Nephele Bolívar, 1887
• species maroon Cadena-Castañeda & Tumbrinck, 2021
• species turgida (Bolívar, 1887)

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