Lepocranus Devriese, 1991

Deranja, Maks, Kasalo, Niko, Adzic, Karmela, Franjevic, Damjan & Skejo, Josip, 2022, Lepocranus and Valalyllum gen. nov. (Orthoptera, Tetrigidae, Cladonotinae), endangered Malagasy dead-leaf-like grasshoppers, ZooKeys 1109, pp. 1-15 : 1

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1109.85565

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lsid:zoobank.org:pub:FC606834-C259-4254-B8CA-9C5A6007246B

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scientific name

Lepocranus Devriese, 1991
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Genus Lepocranus Devriese, 1991 View in CoL

Lepocranus : Devriese 1991

Type species.

Lepocranus fuscus , by original designation and by the original monotypy.

Composition and distribution.

A single species only ( L. fuscus ), endemic to the Malagasy rainforests east of Mahavelona (Foulpointe), such as Tampolo, where the holotype is from, and Manakambahiny (reported in Danielczak et al. 2017).

Original etymology.

Complex noun, male in gender, composed of Latinized Ancient Greek “lepos” (λέπος), meaning bark, and “chranos” ( χράνος), meaning helmet ( Devriese 1991).

Diagnosis.

Same as for the species, see below.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Orthoptera

SubOrder

Caelifera

InfraOrder

Acrididea

SuperFamily

Tetrigoidea

Family

Tetrigidae

SubFamily

Cladonotinae

Tribe

Valalyllini

Loc

Lepocranus Devriese, 1991

Deranja, Maks, Kasalo, Niko, Adzic, Karmela, Franjevic, Damjan & Skejo, Josip 2022
2022
Loc

Lepocranus

Devriese 1991
1991