Tetrigidae Rambur, 1838, 2022

Deranja, Maks, Kasalo, Niko, Adzic, Karmela, Franjevic, Damjan & Skejo, Josip, 2022, Lepocranus and Valalyllum gen. nov. (Orthoptera, Tetrigidae, Cladonotinae), endangered Malagasy dead-leaf-like grasshoppers, ZooKeys 1109, pp. 1-15 : 1

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1109.85565

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:FC606834-C259-4254-B8CA-9C5A6007246B

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/7DC48987-37F5-5925-BBAE-E18188748640

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scientific name

Tetrigidae Rambur, 1838
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Family Tetrigidae Rambur, 1838 View in CoL

Diversity in Madagascar.

Altogether, 76 Tetrigidae species (including the new one) are known to inhabit Madagascar, of which 73 (= 96%) can be found only in Madagascar and nowhere else in the world ( Cigliano et al. 2022). These species are assigned to altogether 29 genera, of which 24 are endemic to the island. Hitherto, only a single leaf-like species was known from the island, Lepocranus fuscus . This study adds one more species with this interesting cryptic morphology, Valalyllum folium gen. et sp. nov.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Orthoptera

SubOrder

Caelifera

InfraOrder

Acrididea

SuperFamily

Tetrigoidea

Family

Tetrigidae