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Thoracistus
| Description | Thoracistus is a genus of decticine or shield-backed katydids in the family Tettigoniidae. The mostly carnivorous genus is endemic to South Africa. From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoracistus, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Rank | genus | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Orthoptera : Tettigoniidae : Thoracistus | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Scientific Name | Thoracistus Pictet, 1888 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Name Published In | Pictet. 1888. Locustides nouveaux ou peu connus du Musée de Genève. Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève (Mem. Soc. Phys. Hist. Nat. Geneve) 30(6):1-84 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Type Specimen | Thoracistus peringueyi Pictet, 1888 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Designated By | Pictet. 1888. Locustides nouveaux ou peu connus du Musée de Genève. Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève (Mem. Soc. Phys. Hist. Nat. Geneve) 30(6):62 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Type Information Source | Orthoptera Species File | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoracistus |
Subtaxa
| Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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| Thoracistus arboreus species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Thoracistus aureoportalis species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Thoracistus jambila species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Thoracistus peringueyi species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Thoracistus semeniphagus species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Thoracistus thyraeus species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Thoracistus viridicrus species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Thoracistus viridifer species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Obsolete Names
| Name | Source | Taxon Rank | Taxonomy |
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| Thorancistus Kirby, 1906 | GBIF | genus | Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Orthoptera : Tettigoniidae : Thorancistus |
References
| CoL2006 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
| Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
| SN2000 unverified/Stang, 2004-present - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
| as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
| Mém. Soc. Phys. Hist. Nat. Genève, 30 (2), no. 6 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
| Storozhenko. 1994. Revision of the tribe Onconotini with a description of a new tribe (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae, Tettigoniinae). Journal of Orthoptera Research (Jour. Orth. Res.) 2:67 - via Orthoptera Species File |
| Caudell. 1908. Orthoptera Fam. Locustidae. Subfam. Decticinae. Genera Insectorum, P. Wytsman [Ed.]. V. Verteneuil & L. Desmet, Bruxelles 72:17 - via Orthoptera Species File |
| Kirby, W.F. 1906. Orthoptera Saltatoria. Part I. (Achetidae et Phasgonuridae). A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae), British Museum (Natural History), London 2:182 - via Orthoptera Species File |
| Otte, D. 1997. Tettigonioidea. Orthoptera Species File, The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia 7:259 - via Orthoptera Species File |
| Pictet. 1888. Locustides nouveaux ou peu connus du Musée de Genève. Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève (Mem. Soc. Phys. Hist. Nat. Geneve) 30(6):61 - via Orthoptera Species File |
| Rentz, D.C.F. 1988. The shield-backed katydids of Southern Africa: their taxonomy, ecology and relationships to the faunas of Australia and S. America (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Tettigoniinae). Invertebrate Taxonomy (Invertebr. Taxon.) 2(2):257 - via Orthoptera Species File |
| Uvarov. 1924. Notes on the Orthoptera in the British Museum, 3. Some less known or new genera and species of subfamilies Tettigoniidae and Decticinae. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London (Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. London) 71(3-4):507 - via Orthoptera Species File |
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
