genus
Aphonodiacanthus Tonon & Campos, 2025
Type
type species by original designation of
Nomenclature (1)
- Aphonodiacanthus Tonon & Campos, 2025 in Tonon, Souza-Dias, Nihei & Campos, 2025: 318.
type species by original designation Aphonodiacanthus melanocephalus Tonon, Campos & Souza-Dias, 2025
Nomenclature references (1)
- Tonon, V., de Almeida, Souza-Dias, P.G.B., Nihei, S.S. & de Campos, L.D. (2025) Silent crickets: A new genus of Neometrypini from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest (Orthoptera: Oecanthidae: Tafaliscinae). Zootaxa, 5729(2), 315–334. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5729.2.5
Descendants and synonyms
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:
The name is derived from the Greek words aphono- (ἄφωνος) meaning “silent, without voice”, referring to the absence of acoustic communication, di- (δί‑) meaning “two, twice, double”, indicating the paired lateral lobes of the pseudoepiphallus; and -acanthus (ἄκανθα), meaning “thorn, spine”, in reference to their pointed morphology.
Stats
| Taxon | Valid names | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Extant | Fossil | Invalid | Total |
| genus | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| species | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |