The subfamily Cladonotinae (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae) from China with description of a new monotypic genus

Two new species of the genus Formosatettix Tinkham, 1937 (Orthoptera, Tetrigidae) from Guizhou and Chongqing, PR China

“…Member of Formosatettix, on the other hand, lack a pair of tegminal sinus and both tegmina and hind wings are invisible (Wei et al 2019). Formosatettix is also similar to the Cladonotinae genera Deltonotus Hancock, 1904, Epitettix Hancock, 1907, and Pseudepitettix Zheng, 1995 [which is a likely synonym of Epitettix as suggested by Deng (2016) and Zha et al (2017b)], and to the Metrodorinae genera Macromotettixoides Zheng, Jiang, 2005 andPseudomacromotettix Zheng, Li &Lin, 2012 [syn. of Macromotettixoides as suggested by Zha et al (2017a)]. Relations among the aforementioned genera have never been systematically investigated.…”

A new tribe of the pygmy grasshoppers subfamily Cladonotinae (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae)

“…The family Tetrigidae is divided into seven subfamilies: Batrachideinae, Cladonotinae, Lophotettiginae, Metrodorinae, Scelimeninae, Teriginae, and Tripetalocerinae (Cigliano et al, 2022). Within the subfamily Cadonotinae, five monophyletic tribes exist, such as Caribbean Choriphyllini, South American Mucrotettigini, African Xerophyllini, Madagascarian Vavallini, and Asian Cladonotini (Deranja et al, 2022) but most genera require revision and are not adequately classified in the Tetrigidae system (Zha et al, 2017;Skejo et al, 2019;Bhaskar et al, 2020;Deng, 2020;Storozhenko, 2021). Here, five genera of the pygmy grasshoppers subfamily Clanonotinae from Asia and New Guinea are placed in a new tribe.…”