genus
Dracogryllacris Li, Yin & He, 2024
龙蟋螽.Type
Gryllacris melanocrania Karny, 1929 type species by original designation of Dracogryllacris Li, Yin & He, 2024
Nomenclature (1)
- Dracogryllacris Li, Yin & He, 2024 in Li, Liu, Xu, Yin & He, 2024
type species by original designation Gryllacris melanocrania Karny, 1929
Nomenclature references (1)
- Li, S.-Y., Liu, Y.-J., Xu, J.-Y., Yin, Z.-X. & He, Z. (2024) Molecular phylogeny of Chinese raspy crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllacrididae) reveals incongruences in current classification. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 201(4). https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae051
Descendants and synonyms
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:
The name of the new genus is built by adding the prefix “Draco” to the genus name Gryllacris. The prefix draco is Latin, meaning dragon, alluding to the large size of species in the genus.
Stats
| Taxon | Valid names | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Extant | Fossil | Invalid | Total |
| genus | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| species | 10 | 0 | 21 | 31 |
| subspecies | 3 | 0 | 7 | 10 |