Erechthis
Erechthis[1] is a genus of Caribbean katydids in the tribe Agraeciini. They are distributed across a few islands in the Greater Antilles[2][3] region.
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Orthoptera |
| Suborder: | Ensifera |
| Family: | Tettigoniidae |
| Subfamily: | Conocephalinae |
| Tribe: | Agraeciini |
| Genus: | Erechthis Bolívar, 1888 |
There are three species:
- Erechthis ayiti De Luca and Morris, 2016 ― found in Haiti
- Erechthis gundlachi Bolívar, 1888 ― found in Cuba and the Dominican Republic
- Erechthis levyi De Luca and Morris, 2016 ― found in The Bahamas
References
- Bolívar, Ignazio (1888). "Ėnumération des Orthoptères de l'ile de Cuba". Mémoires de la Société zoologique de France. 1: 116–244.
- Perez-Gelabert, Daniel (2014). "Two new records of katydids (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Conocephalinae) from the Dominican Republic, Hispaniola". Novitates Caribaea. 7 (7): 37–43. doi:10.33800/nc.v0i7.63.
- De Luca, Paul A.; Morris, Glenn K. (2016). "Erechthis katydids (Tettigoniidae: Conocephalinae) in the Caribbean: new species from The Bahamas and Hispaniola". Journal of Orthoptera Research. 25 (2): 49–59. doi:10.1665/034.025.0203. ISSN 1082-6467. JSTOR 24892495. S2CID 89326905.
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