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''Hetrodes'' is a genus of South African
Orthoptera Orthoptera () is an order of insects that comprises the grasshoppers, locusts, and crickets, including closely related insects, such as the bush crickets or katydids and wētā. The order is subdivided into two suborders: Caelifera – grassho ...
ns, typical of the subfamily
Hetrodinae The HetrodinaeBrunner von Wattenwyl (1878) ''Monographie der Phaneropteriden. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien,'' vol. 28, p. 1-401. are a subfamily of robust bush crickets, also known as armo ...
, erected by Fischer von Waldheim in 1833. Fischer von Waldheim (1833) ''Ann. Soc. ent. Fr.'' 2: 318. It is a
monotypic genus In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon. A monotypic species is one that does not include subspecies or smaller, infraspecific taxa. In the case of genera, the term "unispec ...
and currently the sole representative of the
tribe The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide usage of the term in English language, English is in the discipline of anthropology. This definition is contested, in p ...
Hetrodini Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878.


Species and subspecies

The ''Orthoptera Species File''Orthoptera Species File: genus ''Hetrodes'' Fischer von Waldheim, 1833 (retrieved 11 December 2022)
/ref> lists the single species ''Hetrodes pupus'' (Linnaeus, 1758) and the following subspecies: # ''H. pupus abbreviatus'' Walker, 1869 # ''H. pupus marginatus'' Walker, 1869 # ''H. pupus namaqua'' Péringuey, 1916 # ''H. pupus pupus'' (Linnaeus, 1758) – type (described as ''
Gryllus ''Gryllus'' is a genus of field cricket (Orthoptera, Gryllidae, Gryllinae). Members of the genus are typically 15–31 mm long and darkly coloured. The type species is ''Gryllus campestris'' L.: the European field cricket. Until the mid-1 ...
pupus'' Linnaeus)


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* * {{taxonbar, from=Q14631310, from2=Q10523713 Orthoptera of Africa Ensifera genera Tettigoniinae Monotypic Orthoptera genera