Valalyllum, 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

Family Tetrigidae Rambur, 1838

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.