Danatettix, Thomas & Skejo & Heads, 2019

Thomas, M. Jared, Skejo, Josip & Heads, Sam W., 2019, The last batrachideine of Europe: A new genus and species of pygmy grasshopper (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae) from Eocene Baltic amber, Zootaxa 4686 (3), pp. 435-445 : 436

Danatettix gen. nov.

[urn:lsid: orthoptera .speciesfile.org:TaxonName:507395]

Type species. Danatettix hoffeinsorum sp. nov. by monotypy.

Diagnosis. The genus is differentiated from all other Batrachideinae by the following characters: (1) presence of divergent internal and external lateral carinae on the pronotum; (2) antennal flagellomeres of relatively equal length; (3) pronotum with subquadrate lobe and broadly curved but shallow humeral sinus; (4) tegminal sinus sharply angled; (5) pronotum with slight undulation along its length; (6) truncated anterior margin of the pronotum; and (7) posterior pronotal margin forming a sharp and slightly downturned acuminate process.

Etymology. The genus name honors Katie Dana, the first author’s wife, without whom he would never have become interested in entomology. The suffix “ tettix ” is Greek and means “grasshopper.”