Axylus Stål, 1877

Tan, Ming Kai, Ingrisch, Sigfrid, Robillard, Tony, Baroga-Barbecho, Jessica B. & Yap, Sheryl A., 2018, New taxa and notes on spine-headed katydids (Orthoptera: Conocephalinae: Agraeciini) from the Philippines, Zootaxa 4462 (3), pp. 331-348 : 338

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4462.3.2

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:C591738F-91A7-4A68-B4E4-2F3B21FB5BF7

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5985256

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E78795-4346-646B-A4E7-FB7B9240A7AD

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Axylus Stål, 1877
status

 

Genus Axylus Stål, 1877 View in CoL

Type species: Axylus castaneus Stål, 1877

Brief diagnosis. Mesosternal lobes with medium long to long apical cone. Hind knee lobes bispinose. Male cercus conical or laterally compressed with a proximal and a distal internal process. Male titillators separate with lateral extensions branching from apical area; with a pair of lateral sclerites. Ovipositor elongate and little curved or falcate and highest just behind mid length (Ingrisch, 2015).

Remarks. The genus is currently known from east of the Wallace Line (sensu Huxley) which includes the Philippines. Seven species were described from the Philippines (Ingrisch, 2015): Axylus brachypterus Ingrisch, 2015 ; Axylus castaneus Stål, 1877 ; Axylus furcatus Ingrisch, 2015 ; A xylus montanus Ingrisch, 2015; Axylus negros Ingrisch, 2015 ; Axylus philippinus (Hebard, 1922) ; Axylus taylori (Hebard, 1922) . The taxonomy of the genus has been revised by Ingrisch (2015).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Orthoptera

Family

Tettigoniidae

SubFamily

Conocephalinae

Tribe

Agraeciini

GBIF Dataset (for parent article) Darwin Core Archive (for parent article) View in SIBiLS Plain XML RDF