Brevitrella Gorochov, 2004

Gorochov, A. V., 2021, Taxonomy of Podoscirtinae (Orthoptera: Gryllidae). Part 13: new taxa of the subtribe Podoscirtina from Africa, Zoosystematica Rossica (Zoosyst. Rossica) 30 (1), pp. 64-77 : 66

Genus Brevitrella Gorochov, 2004 , stat. nov. (status promotus)

Type species: Brevitrella madagascarica ( Gorochov, 2004) , comb. nov. [= Kilimagryllus (Brevitrella) madagascaricus Gorochov, 2004 ]; Madagascar.

Remarks. Brevitrella was originally described as a subgenus of the genus Kilimagryllus . Here Brevitrella is considered as a separate genus, because its male genitalia differ from those of Kilimagryllus in a very important character of rachis: the rachis is divided into two elongate processes movable in relation to each other and to the epiphallus (contrary to this, in Kilimagryllus the rachis is rather simple and movable only in relation to the epiphallus, i.e. not divided into movable processes).

Included species. Type species and Brevitrella africana (Walker, 1869) , comb. nov.