Dolichopoda

Dolichopoda
Dolichopoda linderi female
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Ensifera
Family: Rhaphidophoridae
Subfamily: Dolichopodainae
Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1888
Tribe: Dolichopodaini
Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1888
Genus: Dolichopoda
Bolívar, 1880
Type species
Gryllus palpata
Sulzer, 1776

Dolichopoda is a genus of cave crickets in the monotypic tribe Dolichopodaini, subfamily Dolichopodainae. They are distributed in the Mediterranean basin in southern Europe and western Asia.

The type species of the genus is Gryllus palpata, now known as Dolichopoda palpata.

Species

There are over 50 described species. The greatest species diversity occurs in Greece. Four subgenera have been named, though some have been shown to be paraphyletic (Dolichopoda) or polyphyletic (Chopardina).

Dolichopoda (Capraiacris) Baccetti, 1977

These two species lack spines on both the anterior tibiae and the hind femur.

Dolichopoda (Chopardina) Uvarov, 1921

Found in Italy, Corsica, and Greece. Distinguished from other subgenera by having several spines on the hind femurs.

Dolichopoda schiavazzii
Dolichopoda (Dolichopoda) Bolívar, 1880

The largest subgenus by number of species; distinguished from the other subgenera by the spines on the anterior tibiae.

Dolichopoda azami
Dolichopoda (Petrochilosina) Boudou-Saltet, 1980

References

  1. ↑ Bolívar I (1880) Ann. Soc. ent. Fr. 5 10: 72
  2. 1 2 Cigliano, M. M.; Braun, H.; Eades, D. C.; Otte, D. "genus Dolichopoda Bolívar, 1880". orthoptera.speciesfile.org. Orthoptera Species File. Retrieved 26 December 2018.
  3. ↑ Cigliano, M. M.; Braun, H.; Eades, D. C.; Otte, D. "subgenus Dolichopoda Bolívar, 1880". orthoptera.speciesfile.org. Orthoptera Species File. Retrieved 26 December 2018.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Allegrucci, Giuliana; Rampini, Mauro; Di Russo, Claudio; Lana, Enrico; Cocchi, Sara; Sbordoni, Valerio (28 August 2014). "Phylogeography and systematics of the westernmost Italian Dolichopoda species (Orthoptera, Rhaphidophoridae)". ZooKeys (437): 1–23. Bibcode:2014ZooK..437....1A. doi:10.3897/zookeys.437.7917. PMC 4155727. PMID 25197209.
  5. ↑ Allegrucci, Giuliana; Todisco, Valentina; Sbordoni, Valerio (October 2005). "Molecular phylogeography of Dolichopoda cave crickets (Orthoptera, Rhaphidophoridae): A scenario suggested by mitochondrial DNA". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 37 (1): 153–164. Bibcode:2005MolPE..37..153A. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2005.04.022. PMID 15964214.
  6. ↑ Kalaentzis, Konstantinos; Alexiou, Sotiris; Christopoulos, Apostolos; Minoudi, Styliani; Koutsogiannopoulos, David; Kotselis, Christos; Triantafyllidis, Alexandros (2026-05-27). "Delving too deep: Morphological and molecular description of the cave-dwelling Dolichopoda balrogi sp. nov. (Orthoptera, Rhaphidophoridae) from Kastellorizo Island, Greece". Journal of Orthoptera Research. 35 (2): 259–266. doi:10.3897/jor.35.187943. ISSN 1937-2426.