Orthoptera


Cavernicolous Insects

 

Ceuthophilus secretus Scudder, 1894 Ceuthophilus cunicularis Hubbell, 1936

 

Ceuthophilus sp. B

From various Texas caves, Ceuthophilus species B appears to share similarities with C. secretus and C. cunicularis.

Photos Copyright © William R. Elliott and Joe Ivy

 


Ceuthophilus carlsbadensis Caudell, 1924 Ceuthophilus longipes Caudell, 1924

 

Ceuthophilus conicaudus Hubbell, 1936

From various caves of the Guadalupe Escarpment, C. carlsbadensis and C. longipes share similar cave adaptations with C. conicaudus (Pate 2001).

Photos Copyright 2001, 2004 by Kenneth Ingham & second C. conicaudus Copyright 2005 by James C. Cokendolpher

 


Orthoptera Species File Online (Version 2.3)

David C. Eades, Principal Database Developer,
Illinois Natural History Survey

 

Ceuthophilus guttulosus Walker, 1869


 

Mayer, F. 2004. Primnoa Fischer-Waldheim 1846, Sharovia Otte 1997, Parahagla Lin 1982, Phyllophora erosifolia Piza 1981 and Archibrunnea Otte 1997; naming issues resolved. Journal of Orthoptera Research. 13(1):161-165.  pdf

Family Acrididae MacLeay, 1819
Subfamily Melanoplinae Scudder 1897
Tribe Prumnini Mayer, 2004

Prumna primnoa (Fischer-Waldheim 1842) - formerly Primnoa primnoa

 

 

 

Family Primnoidae Gray, 1957

  Primnoa resedaeformis Lamouroux 1812

For over 150 years Primnoa was the name used when referring to a genus of Eurasian grasshoppers or a deep water red tree coral.  In 2003 two aspiring Orthopterists (i.e. Ito 2003, Mayer 2004) working in separate parts of the world, both realized the need for a nomenclatural change with regard to Primnoa (Orthoptera).

Ito, G. 2003. Prumna Motschulsky, a revived name for a grasshopper genus, Primnoa Fischer-Waldheim (Orthoptera: Acrididae) . Tettigonia: Memoirs of the Orthopterological Society of Japan. 5:51-52

 

Eades, D.C., Otte, D. & Naskrecki, P. Orthoptera Species File Online. Version 2.6. [Accessed: December 2006].

http://www.inhs.uiuc.edu/~sjtaylor/cricket_molecular/ceuthophilus.html

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