Discotettix

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title: "Discotettix" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["caelifera-genera", "tetrigidae", "orthoptera-of-asia"] description: "Genus of Caelifera" topic_path: "general/caelifera-genera" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discotettix" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Genus of Caelifera ::

| image = Spiky Grouse Locust (Discotettix belzebuth) (6747966773).jpg | image_caption = Discotettix belzebuth | taxon = Discotettix | authority = Costa, 1864 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = See text | synonyms = Mnesarchus Stål, 1877

Discotettix is a genus of groundhoppers (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae) found in Malesia, Brunei, Indonesia and the Philippines; they may be known as "spiky pygmy devils". After revision, it is the type genus of the tribe Discotettigini and now placed in the subfamily Scelimeninae.

Species

The Orthoptera Species File lists two subgenera: ;Discotettix (Discotettix)

1. Discotettix aruanus
2. Discotettix belzebuth - type species (as D. armatus ) synonym: Discotettix adenanii
3. Discotettix doriae
4. Discotettix kirscheyi
5. Discotettix selysi synonym: Discotettix selangori
6. Discotettix sumatrensis ;Discotettix (Mnesarchus)
7. Discotettix scabridus

''Disconius''

The species Disconius shelfordi from Borneo, was placed in new genus Disconius : having previously been described as Discotettix shelfordi . |image1 = Images of Disconius at iNaturalist

References

References

1. Costa A (1864) ''Annu. Ist. Mus. Zool. Univ. Napoli'' 4: 59.
2. Muhammad AA, Tan MK, Abdullah, Azirun, Bhaskar, Skejo (2018) ''Zootaxa'' 4485(1): 20.
3. "Spiky pygmy devils: revision of the genus Discotettix (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae) and synonymy of Discotettiginae with Scelimeninae". Zootaxa.
4. [https://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/otus/808154/overview Orthoptera Species File (retrieved 24 August 2024)]

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