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Orthoptera Species File
Genus

Unacla Campos & Souza-Dias, 2025

Type

Nomenclature (15)

  • Laranda Walker, 1869: 88.

    type species by original monotypy Laranda tibialis Walker, 1869

  • Laranda Walker, 1869 (homonym of Laranda Kinberg, 1865)
  • Laranda Walker, 1869 in Gorochov, 2014: 14.
  • Unacla Campos & Souza-Dias, 2025: 147.

References (11)

  • Walker, F. (1869) Catalogue of the Specimens of Dermaptera Saltatoria in the Collection of the British Museum. London, Vol. 1, 1–224 pp. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/catalogueofspeci01britrich
  • Saussure, H.L.F.de (1878) Mélanges orthoptérologiques. VI. fascicule Gryllides. Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève, 25(2), 369–704 [505–834]. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/122148#page/525/mode/1up
  • Kirby, W.F. (1906) Orthoptera Saltatoria. Part I. (Achetidae et Phasgonuridae). In A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae). British Museum (Natural History), London. Vol. 2, i-viii, 1–562. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/29662
  • Chopard, L. (1968) Fam. Gryllidae: Subfam. Mogoplistinae, Myrmecophilinae, Scleropterinae, Cachoplistinae, Pteroplistinae, Pentacentrinae, Phalangopsinae, Trigonidiinae, Eneopterinae; Fam. Oecanthidae, Gryllotalpidae. In Orthopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 12, pp. 213–500.
  • Desutter-Grandcolas, L. (1987) Structure et évolution du complexe phallique de Gryllidea (Orthoptères) et classification des genres néotropicaux de Grylloidea. Première partie. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, 23(3), 213–239. Available at http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6139207n/f3.image
  • Desutter-Grandcolas, L. (1994) Revision of the genus Laranda Walker (Orthoptera: Grylloidea: Phalangopsidae) with notes on its distribution and biology. Entomologica Scandinavica, 25(3), 321–332.
  • Otte, D. (1994) Orthoptera Species File 1. Crickets (Grylloidea). The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 120 pp.
  • Gorochov, A.V. (1995) System and evolution of the suborder Ensifera (Orthoptera). Part II. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 260, 1–213. [in Russian]
  • Mews, C.M., Lopes-Andrade, C. & Sperber, C.F. (2008) A new species of Laranda Walker 1869 (Orthoptera: Grylloidea, Phalangopsidae) from remnant patches of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. Neotropical Entomology, 37(4), 420–425. Available at http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1519-566X2008000400010&lng=en&nrm=iso
  • Gorochov, A.V. (2014) Classification of the Phalangopsinae subfamily group, and new taxa from the subfamilies Phalangopsinae and Phaloriinae (Orthoptera: Gryllidae). Zoosystematica Rossica, 23(1), 7–88. Available at http://www.zin.ru/journals/zsr/content/2014/zr_2014_23_1_Gorochov.pdf
  • de Campos, L.D. & Souza-Dias, P.G.B. (2025) Resolving the 150-year-old homonymy of Laranda: A new name for the cricket genus (Orthoptera: Phalangopsidae: Paragryllinae). Zootaxa, 5716(1), 146–148. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5716.1.9

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

The new name is formed by combining the native Tupi word “una”, meaning black, with the suffix “-acla”, which is frequently used for paragrylline crickets.

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Genus1023
Species801119