Latedactylus, Zheng & Cao & Gu, 2023

Zheng, Chengjie, Cao, Chengquan & Gu, Jun-Jie, 2023, A new genus and a new species of pygmy mole cricket from mid-Cretaceous amber in North Myanmar (Orthoptera: Caelifera: Tridactyloidea), Zootaxa 5339 (3), pp. 296-300 : 297

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5339.3.7
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:E7CBA4F1-1A29-4B8D-866F-D30E334752E3
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8309282
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/086A00E3-AAD7-4E3D-8374-E5CFFE61772B
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treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Latedactylus
status	gen. nov.

Treatment

Genus Latedactylus gen. nov.

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Diagnosis. The second segment of cercus cylindrical, longer and distinctly slender than the first; metatibia without swimming plates; metatarsus about three times as long as apical spurs of metatibia; dorsal margin of metatibia with sparse denticles.

Etymology. The genus name is taken from the Latin ‘late’ and ‘dactylus’, ‘late’ means wide, ‘dactylus’ is a suffix commonly used in the genus names of tridactylids.

Type Species. Latedactylus longapedi sp. nov.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Orthoptera
Family	Tridactylidae

Specimens

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