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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scientific name	Lepocranus Devriese, 1991
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Genus Lepocranus Devriese, 1991

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.