Pediodectes

Genus of grasshoppers

Pediodectes
Pediodectes haldemanii
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Ensifera
Family: Tettigoniidae
Subfamily: Tettigoniinae
Tribe: Platycleidini
Genus: Pediodectes
Rehn & Hebard, 1916

Pediodectes is a genus of shield-backed katydids in the family Tettigoniidae. There are about nine described species in Pediodectes.[1][2][3]

Pediodectes stevensonii, Stevenson's shieldback

Species

These species belong to the genus Pediodectes:

  • Pediodectes bruneri (Caudell, 1907) (bruner shieldback)
  • Pediodectes daedelus (Rehn & Hebard, 1920) (daedalus shieldback)
  • Pediodectes grandis (Rehn, 1904) (grand shieldback)
  • Pediodectes haldemanii (Girard, 1854) (haldeman's shieldback)
  • Pediodectes mitchelli (Caudell, 1911)
  • Pediodectes nigromarginatus (Caudell, 1902) (black-margined shieldback)
  • Pediodectes pratti (Caudell, 1911)
  • Pediodectes stevensonii (Thomas, 1870) (Stevenson's shieldback)
  • Pediodectes tinkhami Hebard, 1934 (Tinkham's shieldback)

References

  1. ^ "Pediodectes". GBIF. Retrieved 2021-09-26.
  2. ^ "Pediodectes genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2021-09-26.
  3. ^ Otte, Daniel; Cigliano, Maria Marta; Braun, Holger; Eades, David C. (2020). "genus Pediodectes Rehn & Hebard, 1916". Orthoptera species file online, Version 5.0. Retrieved 2021-09-10.

Further reading

  • Capinera, J. L; Scott, R. D.; Walker, T. J. (2004). Field Guide to Grasshoppers, Katydids, and Crickets of the United States. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-0-8014-8948-8.

External links

  • Media related to Pediodectes at Wikimedia Commons
Taxon identifiers
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