Tettigidea Scudder, 1862

Kasalo, Niko, Naskrecki, Piotr, Rebrina, Fran & Skejo, Josip, 2023, Central American Tetrigidae Rambur, 1838 (Orthoptera): a preliminary catalogue, Zoosystema 45 (7), pp. 177-212 : 184

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5252/zoosystema2023v45a7
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7847141
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scientific name	Tettigidea Scudder, 1862
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Treatment

Genus Tettigidea Scudder, 1862 View in CoL View at ENA

Tettigidea Scudder, 1862: 476 View in CoL (original description of the genus with two species: T. lateralis View in CoL and T. polymorpha View in CoL , no type species designated); 1897: 24 ( Tettigidea View in CoL assigned to Batrachideae, the genus noted to be present in North, Central, and South America). — Rehn 1904: 669 ( T. lateralis View in CoL designated as the type species). — Rehn & Grant 1958: 16 (the genus is widely distributed in North, Central, and South America). — Yin et al. 1996: 923 (catalogued). — Otte 1997: 7 (catalogued). — Silva et al. 2021: 36 View Cited Treatment (overview of the genus with numerous nomenclatural acts, key to the species).

TYPE SPECIES. — Acrydium laterale Say, 1824 View in CoL , designated by Rehn (1904).

COMPOSITION AND DISTRIBUTION. — According to the currently accepted taxonomy ( Cigliano et al. 2022), 20 species, some with subspecies. Numerous nomina dubia. Distributed in North, Central, and South America.

REMARK

The genus includes numerous species with rich history and scant records. A proper and comprehensive revision of the genus based on a large sample is needed in order to ascertain the amount of morphological variability inherent to the genus.