Electrotettix Heads & Thomas

Heads, Sam W., Thomas, M. Jared & Wang, Yinan, 2014, A remarkable new pygmy grasshopper (Orthoptera, Tetrigidae) in Miocene amber from the Dominican Republic, ZooKeys 429, pp. 87-100 : 90

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.429.8020

publication LSID

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persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/FBFDB93E-802F-4639-8063-86AFBB4D83A5

taxon LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:act:FBFDB93E-802F-4639-8063-86AFBB4D83A5

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scientific name

Electrotettix Heads & Thomas
status

gen. n.

Taxon classification Animalia ORDO FAMILIA

Genus Electrotettix Heads & Thomas View in CoL gen. n.

Type species.

Electrotettix attenboroughi Heads & Thomas, gen. et sp. n.

Diagnosis.

The new genus is distinguished from all other Cladonotinae by the presence of tegmina and vestigial hind wings. Frontal costa forked just superior of antennal torulae. Anterior margin of frons at frontoclypeal margin broadly emarginate. Antennal flagellomere 3 approximately half as long as other flagellomeres. Pronotum with distinct lobe superior to humeral sinus. Posterior margin of pronotum forming a slightly upturned, blunt acuminate process.

Etymology.

The genus-group name is a combination of electrum (Latin from Greek, meaning “amber”) and tettix (Greek, meaning “grasshopper”).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Orthoptera

Family

Tetrigidae