genus

Caimanellus Battiston & Fontana, 2024

Type

Caimanellus australis Battiston & Fontana, 2024 type species by original designation of Caimanellus Battiston & Fontana, 2024

Caimanellus Battiston & Fontana, 2024: 101.
type species by original designation Caimanellus australis Battiston & Fontana, 2024
Caimanellus Battiston & Fontana, 2024 (classified as Odonturini Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878) in Battiston & Fontana, 2024: 101.

Caimanellus Battiston & Fontana, 2024 (classified as Anisophyina Cadena-Castañeda, 2026) in Cadena-Castañeda, 2026: 41, 49, 86.

Battiston, R. & Fontana, P. (2024) Orthoptera in the far side of the world: the southernmost new genus of Phaneropterinae, and the ecology of some Subantarctic Orthoptera. Bulletin of Insectology, 77(1), 101–108. Available at http://www.bulletinofinsectology.org/pdfarticles/vol77-2024-101-108battiston.pdf
Cadena-Castañeda, O.J. (2026) Studies on Phaneropterinae: The short-winged bush katydids, Odonturini sensu lato, Barbististini and their allies (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae). Twelfth contribution to the suprageneric organization of phaneropterines. Zootaxa, 5762(1), 1–82. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5762.1.1

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

The name refers to the peculiar shape and colour pattern on the abdominal tergites, resembling the scales of a small caiman.