Studies on chevron crickets: Contribution to the knowledge of Lutosinae / ini taxa (Orthoptera: Anostostomatidae)
Author
Cadena-Castañeda, Oscar J.
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Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, Grupo de Investigación en Artrópodos “ Kumangui ”. ojccorthoptera @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 5646 - 0602
ojccorthoptera@gmail.com
Author
García, Alexander García
0000-0001-5646-0602
Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, Grupo de Investigación en Artrópodos “ Kumangui ”. ojccorthoptera @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 5646 - 0602 & agarciag @ udistrital. edu. co; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 9905 - 003 X
ojccorthoptera@gmail.com
Author
Nos, Maria Del Pilar Castella-
0000-0003-3551-4370
Universidad INCCA de Colombia. Grupo en Ecología Evolutiva y Biogeografía Tropical ECOBIT. & https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 3551 - 4370
Author
Sarmiento, Juan Pablo Prias
0000-0002-5602-3370
Universidad INCCA de Colombia. Grupo en Ecología Evolutiva y Biogeografía Tropical ECOBIT. & https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 5602 - 3370
Author
Tavares, Gustavo Costa
Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA), Instituto de Ciências Biológicas (ICB), Av. Augusto Correa # 1 66075 - 110, Belém, PA, Brazil. Grupo de Estudos de Artrópodes da Amazônia (GEAA).
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Zootaxa
2022
2022-08-29
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journal article
133175
10.11646/zootaxa.5178.4.3
80cbc663-bb6f-4ce3-a069-91bd0858c006
1175-5326
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Anostostomatidae
classification
The classification of the chevron crickets has been changing in the taxonomic ranges, and already belonged to
Mimnermidae
(Lezininae,
Lutosinae
, Mimnerminae and Deinacridinae) and Cratomelidae (Cratomelinae and Anabropsinae) according to
Gorochov (1988)
. These two “families” were synonymized to
Anostostomatidae
.
Mimnermidae
became a junior synonym (a name not currently valid), and Cratomelidae was considered a monogeneric tribe in the same way as the other subfamilies that got status of tribe (
Johns, 1997
). Again
Gorochov (2001a)
elevated to the status of subfamilies to the previously mentioned taxa, also including as a subfamily
Cooloolidae
= Cooloolinae, a successful change of taxonomic rank. This classification scheme in subfamilies was mostly accepted and incorporated in the
Orthoptera
Species File
(
Cigliano
et al
. 2022
) and in which we have been following in the last twenty years.
Recently,
Gorochov (2020)
, decided to keep two subfamilies,
Anostostomatinae
and Lezininae, opining that the latter should also be a tribe, since it does not have special morphological characters. The other subfamilies were treated as tribes of
Anostostomatinae
. Gorochov’s taxonomic rank changes were not restricted only to the
Stenopelmatoidea
, but also occurred in the Grylloidea and Tettigonioidea. Perhaps, Gorochov will apply the same procedure to the family
Rhaphidophoridae
. So, we may ask: will he rearrange camel cricket subfamilies into tribes or return to his old scheme of
Ensifera
subfamilies mentioned here?
Undoubtedly, Gorochov has contributed enormously to the study of
Ensifera
and other Polyneoptera, but a fair hierarchy must be maintained for all taxa. Gorochov (pers. comm.) introduced his changes in taxonomic ranges so that they are more similar to the classifications of other groups of insects, and thus establish coherence in the taxa indistinctly. If Gorochov taxonomically reassigned subfamilies to tribes, the same should happen in groups that he considers subfamilies and that are closely related, as an example the group of subfamilies Gryllinae (more details in
Cadena-Castañeda & García García 2020
) among others.