Erianthus (insect)

Erianthus is a genus of grasshoppers restricted to Southeast Asia. They occur in Japan, northeast India, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, South China including Hong Kong, and extend east to Sumatra. In the past some neotropical species were also included in the genus. They have narrow ranges and species are identifiable only by their characteristics of male and female genitalia.[1][2]

Erianthus
Unknown Erianthus species from Malaysia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Caelifera
Family: Chorotypidae
Subfamily: Erianthinae
Genus: Erianthus
Stål, 1875
Type species
Mastax guttata
Westwood, 1841

The genus was erected in 1875 by Swedish entomologist Carl Stål in his Observations Orthopterologiques.[3] Erianthus is the family Chorotypidae and is the largest genus in the subfamily Erianthinae by number of species.[4] The type species is Mastax guttata (now Erianthus guttatus).[5]

Species
Erianthus versicolor

As of 2018, species in Erianthus include:[5]

  • Erianthus angulatus Ingrisch & Willemse, 1988 – Thailand
  • Erianthus armatus Descamps, 1975 – Vietnam
  • Erianthus bolivari Descamps, 1975 – Indochina
  • Erianthus delattrei Descamps, 1975 – Cambodia
  • Erianthus dohrni Bolívar, 1914 – Vietnam
  • Erianthus fruhstorferi Bolívar, 1930 – Thailand
  • Erianthus guttatus (Westwood, 1841) – Malesia
  • Erianthus inhamatus Ingrisch & Willemse, 1988 – Thailand
  • Erianthus malcolmi Bolívar, 1903 – Malaysia
  • Erianthus manueli Ingrisch & Willemse, 1988 – Thailand
  • Erianthus nipponensis Rehn, 1904 – Japan
  • Erianthus pyramidalis Ingrisch & Willemse, 1988 – Thailand
  • Erianthus rehni Descamps, 1975 – Thailand
  • Erianthus serratus Ingrisch & Willemse, 1988 – Thailand
  • Erianthus sukhothaiensis Descamps, 1981 – Thailand
  • Erianthus versicolor Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1898 – Indochina
  • Erianthus vitalisi Bolívar, 1914 – Indochina

References
  1. Ingrisch, S.; Willemse, F. (1988). "Revision of the genus Erianthus Stal in Thailand and Malaysia (Orthoptera: Eumastacoidea: Erianthinae)". Entomol. Scand. 19: 87–101.
  2. Descamps M (1975). "Revision du genre Erianthus Stål, 1875 (Orth. Eumastacoidea, Erianthinae)". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. Nouvelle Série. 11 (1): 91–136.
  3. Stål (1875). "Observations Orthopterologiques". Bihang Kungl. Svenska Vet. Akad. Handl. 3 (14). Retrieved 29 December 2018.
  4. Cigliano, M. M.; Braun, H.; Eades, D. C.; Otte, D. "subfamily Erianthinae Karsch, 1889". orthoptera.speciesfile.org. Orthoptera Species File. Retrieved 29 December 2018.
  5. Cigliano, M. M.; Braun, H.; Eades, D. C.; Otte, D. "genus Erianthus Stål, 1875". orthoptera.speciesfile.org. Orthoptera Species File. Retrieved 29 December 2018.
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