Tetrigoidea Ramber, 1838

Gupta, Sunil Kumar, Shi, Jian-Ping & Chandra, Kailash, 2018, A new species of genus Thoradonta Hancock, 1908 (Orthoptera: Tetrigoidea: Tetrigidae) from India, Zootaxa 4455 (3), pp. 585-588 : 585-586

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4455.3.15
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5971576
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scientific name	Tetrigoidea Ramber, 1838
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Superfamily Tetrigoidea Ramber, 1838 View in CoL

Family Tetrigidae Ramber, 1838

Subfamily Scelimeninae Bolivar, 1887

Genus Thoradonta Hancock, 1909 View in CoL

Thoradonta Hancock, 1909 View in CoL

Hancock, 1909 [1908]. Trans. Entomol. Soc. London 407.

Yin, et al. 1996. Synonymic Catalogue of Grasshoppers and their Allies of the World. 926.

Shishodia, et al., 2010. An annotated checklist of Orthoptera (Insecta) from India. 155–157.

Deng, 2016. Taxonomic study of Tetrigoidea from China. 41–44.

Cigliano, et al., 2018. Orthoptera Species File.<http:// Orthoptera .SpeciesFile.org>

Type species: Thoradonta dentata Hancock, 1909 .

Body small, width of vertex equal to or narrower than width of one eye; frontal costa elevated, antennae filiform, inserted below lower margin of compound eyes, lateral ocelli inserted below the middle of the compound eyes height. Eyes globular, pronotum truncate, anteriorly, tegmen elongate or oblong. Hind wings developed, abbreviated or absent; hind femora robust, crassate, first and third segment of hind tarsi subequal in length.