genus
Diablotinthus Robillard & Tan, 2025
imp crickets
Type
Diablotinthus lengguru Robillard & Tan, 2025 type species by original designation of Diablotinthus Robillard & Tan, 2025
Nomenclature (1)
- Diablotinthus Robillard & Tan, 2025 in Tan, Rahmadi & Robillard, 2025: 46.
type species by original designation Diablotinthus lengguru Robillard & Tan, 2025
Nomenclature references (1)
- Tan, M.K., Rahmadi, C. & Robillard, T. (2025) New fairy-folk crickets from New Guinea (Grylloidea, Eneopterinae, Lebinthina). Journal of Orthoptera Research, 34(1), 45–62. https://doi.org/10.3897/jor.34.131932
Descendants and synonyms
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:
The name refers to the diminutive size and the reddish head of the type species. It is made up of the prefix “Diablotin,” a folkloric impish creature (typically a small devil) often represented with a red head, and the suffix -inthus, referring to a Lebinthina genus.
Stats
| Valid names | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Extant | Fossil | Invalid | Total | |
| genus | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| species | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | |