Phaesticus Uvarov, 1940

Storozhenko, Sergey Yu. & Dawwrueng, Pattarawich, 2015, New and little-known pygmy grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae) from Thailand, Zootaxa 4052 (5), pp. 527-554 : 548

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4052.5.2

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6096395

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scientific name

Phaesticus Uvarov, 1940
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Genus Phaesticus Uvarov, 1940 View in CoL

Type species: Tettix mellerborgi Stål, 1855 , by monotypy (inherited from replaced name).

Notes. The genus Phaestus was established for a single species from Java ( Bolívar, 1887). This generic name was preoccupied in Hymenoptera and a new replacement name Phaesticus was proposed ( Uvarov, 1940). Later Blackith (1992) ignoring Uvarov’s action again proposed a new name Lamprauges for the genus Phaestus Bolívar, 1887 . Otte (1997) clarified the situation with the double proposed replacement names and synonymized Lamprauges Blackith, 1992 under Phaesticus Uvarov, 1940 . The position of the genus Phaesticus in the systematics of the family Tetrigidae is still under discussion. Here we follow the traditional point of view ( Hancock, 1907a; Zheng, 2005; Zheng et al., 2011a) and place it in the subfamily Discotettiginae , while Otte (1997) transferred Phaesticus to the subfamily Tetriginae without any comments.

Composition. Currently the genus Phaesticus consists of six species, namely P. mellerborgi ( Stål, 1855) from Indonesia (Java), P. sumatrensis ( Willemse, 1928) from Indonesia (Sumatra), P. moniliantennatus ( Günther, 1940) from China (Fujian), P. c ar i na t us Zheng, 1998 from China (Yunnan), P. a z e m i i Mahmood, Idris et Salmah, 2007 from Malaysia ( Malacca Peninsula: Selandor), and P. insularis (Hancock, 1907) distributed in Malaysia ( North Borneo: Sarawak and Malacca Peninsula: Selangor) and Indonesia (Java, Sumatra) ( Stål, 1855; Hancock, 1907; Willemse, 1928; Günther, 1940; Zheng, 1998; Mahmood et al., 2007). The holotype of P. az e m i i is the male deutonymph from Selangor and probably this species is only a synonym of P. insularis , because the imago of the latter was also recorded from Selangor (Mahmood et al., 2007). One new species is described below.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Orthoptera

Family

Tetrigidae

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