Genus
Caimanellus Battiston & Fontana, 2024
Nomenclature (3)
- 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.
References (2)
- 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 https://www.google.com/url?https://archive.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
Descendants and synonyms
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.
Stats
| Taxon | Valid names | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Extant | Fossil | Invalid | Total |
| Genus | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Species | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |