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Anostostomatidae
| Description | Anostostomatidae is a family of insects in the order Orthoptera, widely distributed in the southern hemisphere. It is named Mimnermidae or Henicidae in some taxonomies, and common names include king crickets in South Africa and weta in New Zealand (although not all weta are in Anostostomatidae). Prominent members include the Parktown prawn of South Africa, and the giant weta of New Zealand. The distribution of this family reflects a common ancestry before the fragmenting of Gondwana. From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anostostomatidae, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Rank | family | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Orthoptera : Anostostomatidae | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Scientific Name | Anostostomatidae | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Name Published In | Saussure. 1859. Orthoptera Nova Americana (Diagnoses praeliminares). Revue et Magasin de Zoologie Pure et Appliquée (Revue et Magasin de Zoologie) 2(11):201-212, 315-317, 390-394 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anostostomatidae |
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Subtaxa
| Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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| Aistus genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Anabropsis genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Anisoura genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Anostostoma genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Apotetamenus genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Apteranabropsis genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Bochus genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Borborothis genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Brachyporus genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Brevipenna genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Carcinopsis genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Cnemotettix genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Coccinellomima genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Cratomelus genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Deinacrida genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Dolichochaeta genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
 Euclydes ✝genus | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 1 | 122 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous | 122 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous | |
| Exogryllacris genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Glaphyrosoma genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Gryllacropsis genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Gryllotaurus genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Hemiandrus genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Hemideina genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Henicus genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Hydrolutos genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Hypocophoides genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Hypocophus genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Leiomelus genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Leponosandrus genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Lezina genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Libanasa genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Libanasidus genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Licodia genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Lutosa genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Motuweta genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Nasidius genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Neolutosa genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Onosandridus genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Onosandrus genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Papuaistus genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Paterdecolyus genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Penalva genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Pteranabropsis genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Rhumosa genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Spizaphilus genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Transaevum genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Obsolete Names
| Name | Source | Taxon Rank | Taxonomy |
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| Mimnermidae | GBIF | family | Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Orthoptera : Mimnermidae |
| Henicidae | GBIF | family | Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Orthoptera : Henicidae |
References
| CoL2006/OSF2 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
| Otte, Daniel / Poole, Robert W. and Patricia Gentili, eds., 1997: Orthoptera. Nomina Insecta Nearctica: A Check List of the Insects of North America: vol. 4: Non-Holometabolous Orders. 581-634. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) |
| Otte, Daniel, 2000: Gryllacrididae, Stenopelmatidae, Cooloolidae, Schizodactylidae, Anostostomatidae, and Rhaphidophoridae. Orthoptera Species File 8. 97. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) |
| Cadena-Castañeda & Cortés-Torres. 2013. New species and taxonomic rearrangements of Anostostomatid Crickets (Orthoptera: Stenopelmatoidea: Anostostomatidae) from the Neotropics. Zootaxa 3664(3):335–348 - via Orthoptera Species File |
| Gorochov. 2010. New species of the families Anostostomatidae and Rhaphidophoridae (Orthoptera: Stenopelmatoidea) from China. Far Eastern Entomologist 206:1-16 - via Orthoptera Species File |
| Monteith & L.H. Field. 2001. In Field, L.H. [Ed.]. Australian king crickets: Distribution, Habitats and Biology (Orthoptera: Anostostomatidae). The biology of wetas, king crickets and their allies, Wallingford 79-94 - via Orthoptera Species File |
| Tepper. 1892. The Gryllacrididae and Stenopelmatidae of Australia and Polynesia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia (Trans. R. Soc. S. Australia) 15:172 - via Orthoptera Species File |
| Desutter-Grandcolas. 2003. Phylogeny and the evolution of acoustic communication in extant Ensifera (Insecta, Orthoptera). Zoologica Scripta (Zool. Scripta) 32(6):538 - via Orthoptera Species File |
| Picker, M., Griffiths & Weaving. 2005. Field Guide to Insects of Southern Africa, Struik Publishers, South Africa 74 - via Orthoptera Species File |
| Toms. 2001. In Field, L.H. [Ed.]. South African king crickets (Anostostomatidae). The biology of wetas, king crickets and their allies, Wallingford 73-78 - via Orthoptera Species File |
| Brettschneider, Chimimba, Scholtz & Bateman. 2007. Review of southern African Anostostomatidae (Orthoptera: Ensifera), with a key to genera. African Entomology (Afr. Entomol.) 15:103-119 - via Orthoptera Species File |
| Gorochov. 2001. New taxa of Anostostomatidae and Prophalangopsidae (Orthoptera). Zoosystematica Rossica 9(2):299-315 - via Orthoptera Species File |
| Ingrisch & D.C.F. Rentz. 2009. Orthoptera (grasshoppers, locusts, katydids, crickets). Encyclopedia of Insects, Academic Press 2nd ed.:735 - via Orthoptera Species File |
| Diwakar & Balakrishnan. 2006. Male and female stridulation in an Indian weta (Orthoptera: Anostostomatidae). Bioacoustics 16:75-85 - via Orthoptera Species File |
| Gorochov. 2001. In Field, L.H. [Ed.]. The higher classification, phylogeny and evolution of the superfamily Stenopelmatoidea. The biology of wetas, king crickets and their allies, Wallingford 8 - via Orthoptera Species File |
| Johns. 1997. The Gondwanaland weta: family Anostostomatidae (formerly in Stenopelmatidae, Henicidae or Mimnermidae): nomenclatural problems, world checklist, new genera and species. Journal of Orthoptera Research (Jour. Orth. Res.) 6:127 - via Orthoptera Species File |
| Otte, D. 2000. Gryllacrididae, Stenopelmatidae, Cooloolidae, Schizodactylidae, Anastostomatidae and Rhaphidophoridae. Orthoptera Species File, The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia 8:40 - via Orthoptera Species File |
| Saussure. 1859. Orthoptera Nova Americana (Diagnoses praeliminares). Revue et Magasin de Zoologie Pure et Appliquée (Revue et Magasin de Zoologie) 2(11):209 - via Orthoptera Species File |
| Taylor Smith, Morgan-Richards & Trewick. 2013. New Zealand ground weta (Anostostomatidae: Hemiandrus): descriptions of two species with notes on their biology. New Zealand Journal of Zoology (New Zealand J. Zool.) 40(4):314 - via Orthoptera Species File |
| Vandergast, Weissman, Wood, D.C.F. Rentz, Bazelet & Ueshima. 2017. Tackling an intractable problem: Can greater taxon sampling help resolve relationships within the Stenopelmatoidea (Orthoptera: Ensifera)?. Zootaxa 4291(1):18 - via Orthoptera Species File |
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
