Cladonotinae, Bolivar, 1887

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

Subfamily Cladonotinae

Composition and distribution.

This diverse and polyphyletic family includes altogether 314 species assigned to 74 genera ( Cigliano et al. 2022). Most genera require revision and are not adequately classified in the Tetrigidae system ( Zhang et al. 2020). Within the subfamily Cladonotinae , several monophyletic tribes exist, such as Caribbean Choriphyllini ( Choriphyllum Serville, 1838 and Phyllotettix Hancock, 1902), African Xerophyllini (including leaf-like Acmophyllum Karsch, 1890, Seyidotettix Rehn, 1938, Trypophyllum Karsch, 1890, Xerophyllum Fairmaire, 1846), and Asian Cladonotini ( Hymenotes Westwood, 1837, Holoarcus Hancock, 1909, Dolatettix Hancock, 1907).

Diversity in Madagascar.

Altogether, 18 Tetrigidae species of Madagascar are assigned to the subfamily Cladonotinae : two members of Valalyllini trib. nov. ( L. fuscus and V. folium ); 13 species of the genus Thymochares , which is currently not assigned to any of the tribes, and it is questionable whether it represents a genus of Cladonotinae ; Microthymochares pullus , an endemic genus and species with the same taxonomic problem as Thymochares ; Epitettix spheniscus also with the same problematic assignment; and Xerophyllini and its member Morphopoides madagascariensis ( Cigliano et al. 2022).