Eumecopoda Hebard, 1922

Morris, Glenn K, Ingrisch, Sigfrid, Willemse, Fer, Willemse, Luc, De Luca, Paul A. & Klimas, Dita, 2025, Stridulation songs of some Tettigoniidae (Ensifera, Orthoptera) from Papua New Guinea, Zootaxa 5600 (1), pp. 1-81 : 26

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5600.1.1

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14970532

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scientific name

Eumecopoda Hebard, 1922
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Type species: Mecopoda cyrtoscelis Karsch, 1888 by original designation.

Under this genus about 7 taxa have been arranged ( Hebard 1922, Beier 1966). Two of them, E. reducta Hebard, 1922 and E. walkeri ( Kirby, 1891) , occur in the Philippines, E. moluccarum (Griffini, 1908) in the Moluccas, E. superba ( Bolivar, 1898) known only from “Hassam” and Mansinam ( NW West Irian) ( Bolivar 1898, Griffini 1908) and the widespread type-species E. cyrtoscelis from the Aru Islands through all of New Guinea to New Britain. The taxa E. karschi and E. regina , both Kirby, 1891, are considered subspecies of E. cyrtoscelis , the former occurring in Queensland, the latter in Duke of York Islands.

The specimens collected in the surroundings of Wau represent two species, a larger one referring to E. cyrtoscelis and a smaller one, which has apparently not yet been described.

Bolivar, I. (1898) Ortopteros nuevos de Borneo y de Nueva Guinea. In: Actas de la Sociedad Espanola de Historia Natural. Vol. 2. In: Serie Real sociedad, Madrid, 27, pp. 137-142.

Hebard, M. (1922) Studies in Malayan, Melanesian and Australian Tettigoniidae (Orthoptera). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, 74, 121-299.

Kirby, W. F. (1891) Notes on the Orthopterous family Mecopodinae. Transactions of the Royal entomological society of London, 39 (3), 405-412.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Orthoptera

Family

Tettigoniidae