Electrotettix attenboroughi Heads & Thomas, 2014
Accepted species in Catalogue of Life’s 11 September 2026 base release. This preserves the source classification and available supporting data; it is not a completed species monograph.
Identity & source status
- Scientific name
- Electrotettix attenboroughi Heads & Thomas, 2014
- Name authority
- Heads & Thomas, 2014
- Rank
- species
- Accepted status
- accepted
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Orthoptera
- Family
- Tetrigidae
- Genus
- Electrotettix
- Extinction status
- Recorded extinct
Source habitat flags: Marine: no · Freshwater: no · Terrestrial: yes. These do not form a complete habitat description.
Classification family tree
Nested taxonomic groups from the source. This is not a direct-ancestor chain, a dated evolutionary tree or a phylogenetic reconstruction.
- domainEukaryota (Chatton, 1925) Whittaker & Margulis, 1978
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumArthropoda
- subphylumHexapoda
- classInsecta
- orderOrthoptera Olivier, 1789
- suborderCaelifera Ander, 1936
- infraorderAcrididea Targioni-Tozzetti, 1882
- superfamilyTetrigoidea Rambur, 1838
- familyTetrigidae Rambur, 1838
- subfamilyMetrodorinae Bolívar, 1887
- tribeMetrodorini Bolívar, 1887
- subtribeMucrotettigina Cadena-Castañeda & Silva, 2019
- genusElectrotettix Heads & Thomas, 2014
- speciesElectrotettix attenboroughi Heads & Thomas, 2014
Close classified relatives
No other member of this genus is present in the selected snapshot.
Source literature & publication evidence
References attached to this source record, including nomenclatural citations where supplied. This is a selected bibliography; abbreviated citations remain in the source’s form.
- Heads, S.W., Thomas, M.J. & Wang, Y. (2014) A remarkable new pygmy grasshopper (Orthoptera, Tetrigidae) in Miocene amber from the Dominican Republic. ZooKeys, 429, 87–100. Available at http://www.pensoft.net/journals/zookeys/article/8020/a-remarkable-new-pygmy-grasshopper-orthoptera-%C2%A0tetrigidae-in-miocene-amber-from-the-dominican%C2%A0republic Source fields: Taxon.tsv dwc:namePublishedIn, Taxon.tsv dcterms:references
Origins, evidence & remaining research
Name authority and publication references document nomenclature where the source supplies it. They do not establish evolutionary origins or the earliest fossil occurrence.
Specimen-level evidence, morphology, ecological research, phylogenetic studies, a comprehensive bibliography and a located literary passage have not yet been compiled for this record. A suitable sourced image remains to be added.
Dataset citation & attribution
This exact taxon in ChecklistBank · Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11
Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11; dataset 316321; doi:10.48580/dgz5n. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Retrieved 5 October 2026.
Stable key: col:396WL. Classification follows source parent identifiers. English common names may vary by region.