genus
Kanakacris Kasalo & Skejo, 2025
Type
type species by original designation of
Nomenclature (2)
- Kanakacris Kasalo & Skejo, 2025 in Kasalo, Brouste, Desutter-Grandcolas, Hervé, Bogić & Skejo, 2025: 364.
type species by original designation Pseudoparatettix illiesi Günther, 1972
- Kanakacris Kasalo & Skejo, 2025 (classified as Xistrellini Skejo, Storozhenko, Tumbrinck & Kasalo, 2025) in Skejo, Kasalo, Patano, Storozhenko, Tumbrinck, Domazet-Lošo, Amoroso, Yap & Škorput, 2025: 38.
Nomenclature references (2)
- Kasalo, N., Brouste, D., Desutter-Grandcolas, L., Hervé, C., Bogić, D. & Skejo, J. (2025) Atlas of New Caledonian Tetrigidae with preliminary suprageneric classification of Batrachideinae. Zoosystema, 47(18), 327–397. https://doi.org/10.5252/zoosystema2025v47a18
- Skejo, J., Kasalo, N., Patano, R.R., Jr., Storozhenko, S.Y., Tumbrinck, J., Domazet-Lošo, T., Amoroso, V.B., Yap, S.A. & Škorput, J. (2025) Taxonomic revision of pygmy devil genera Almacris, Ginixistra, Tegotettix, and Xistra, with comments on Xistrella (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae). Taxonomy, 5(60), 1–47. https://doi.org/10.3390/taxonomy5040060
Descendants and synonyms
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:
Named in honor of the Kanak people, the indigenous inhabitants of New Caledonia. The suffix -acris is derived from the Greek word ἀκρίς, meaning “grasshopper, locust”, and is of feminine gender.
Stats
| Taxon | Valid names | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Extant | Fossil | Invalid | Total |
| genus | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| species | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |