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.

Erechthis
Erechthis levyi male, dorsal aspect
Scientific classification
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
  1. Bolívar, Ignazio (1888). "Ėnumération des Orthoptères de l'ile de Cuba". Mémoires de la Société zoologique de France. 1: 116–244.
  2. 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.
  3. 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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