Melainotettix, Gunther, 1939

Skejo, Josip, Husemann, Martin, Jr, Romeo Patano, Tumbrinck, Josef, Pushkar, Taras I., Pavlović, Marko, Mohagan, Alma, Pamin, Jan-Henrik & Kasalo, Niko, 2024, Revision of the polyphyletic genus Hirrius Bolívar, 1887 (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae), with descriptions of three new genera and insights into antennal sensilla morphology, Zootaxa 5524 (1), pp. 1-61 : 8

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5524.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:FBBBA8C8-BFD2-4F24-A707-BB97DA827521

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14035785

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/612D3672-1C34-1B27-42A6-FCC3FD9B7DD6

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Melainotettix
status

 

Genus group Melainotettix View in CoL nov.

Diagnosis. Body usually black. In frontal view, vertex with C-shaped carinae. Dorsal margins of the antennal grooves positioned at the lower third of the compound eyes. In dorsal view, vertex slightly indrawn. Pronotal discus wavy, with several depressions. Lateral lobes of the pronotum projected sidewards. Prozonal carinae present or reduced. Legs smooth and elongated, without tubercles or teeth. Hind femur with a concavity just before the hind knee.

Composition and distribution. Two genera endemic to Mindanao ( Hirrius Bolívar, 1887 and Arulenus Stål, 1877 ), one monotypic genus endemic to northern Sulawesi ( Guentheracris gen. nov., described here) and two genera endemic to Papua ( Camelotettix Hancock, 1907 and Melainotettix Günther, 1939 ). Possibly, Parahirrius gen. nov. also belongs to this group.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Orthoptera

Family

Tetrigidae

GBIF Dataset (for parent article) Darwin Core Archive (for parent article) View in SIBiLS Plain XML RDF