Genus Lernecella Hebard, 1928

Lernecella Hebard, 1928a: 13 .

Type species. Lernecella trinitatis Hebard, 1928 .

Distribution. Southern Central America, French Guiana and Trinidad.

Diagnosis. See Desutter-Grandcolas (1992a: 122).

Included species. Lernecella trinitatis, Lernecella minuta Desutter-Grandcolas, 1992, Paraclodes minor Otte, 2006, Uvaroviella simlense Otte & Perez Gelabert, 2009, Uvaroviella mirabilis Otte & Perez Gelabert, 2009, Uvaroviella erinys Otte & Perez Gelabert, 2009 .

Phylogenetic relationships. In the phylogenetic hypothesis of Chintauan-Marquier et al. (submit.), Lernecella is the sistergroup of a wide assemblage including all the genera classified presently in the Luzarinae according to the Orthoptera Species File, in addition to Phalangopsis and Philippopsis . Desutter-Grandcolas (1992a) concluded that Lernecella may belong to another species group, different from those already defined within the Luzarinae; this hypothesis is supported by the molecular evidence.