genus

Mucrotettix Perez-Gelabert, Hierro & Otte, 1998

Type

type species by original designation of

Mucrotettix Perez-Gelabert, Hierro & Otte, 1998: 192.
type species by original designation Mucrotettix gibbosus Perez-Gelabert, Hierro & Otte, 1998
Mucrotettix Perez-Gelabert, Hierro & Otte, 1998 in Silva, Cadena-Castañeda, Pereira, De Domenico & Sperber, 2019: 14, 22.

Mucrotettix Perez-Gelabert, Hierro & Otte, 1998 in Kasalo, Yong, Rebrina & Skejo, 2023: 188.
Mucrotettix Perez-Gelabert, Hierro & Otte, 1998 in Cadena-Castañeda, Quintana-Arias, Infante, Silva & Tavares, 2025: 94.

Cadena-Castañeda, O.J., Quintana-Arias, R.F., Infante, I.C., Silva, D.S.M. & Tavares, G.C. (2025) Studies on pygmy grasshoppers: On the current Metrodorinae sensu lato classification (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae) with emphasis on American and Malagasy taxa. Zootaxa, 5597(1), 1–265. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5597.1.1
Kasalo, N., Yong, S., Rebrina, F. & Skejo, J. (2023) Definition of the tribe Metrodorini (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae) with notes on biogeography and evolution of Metrodorinae and Cladonotinae. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae, 63(1), 187–193. Available at http://www.aemnp.eu/data/article-1944/1989-63_1_187.pdf

Perez-Gelabert, D.E., Hierro, B. & Otte, D. (1998) New genera and species of Greater Antillean grouse-locusts (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae: Cladonotinae). Journal of Orthoptera Research, 7, 189–204.
Silva, D.S.M., Cadena-Castañeda, O.J., Pereira, M.R., De Domenico, F.C. & Sperber, C.F. (2019) New tribes, overview and checklist of Neotropical Cladonotinae (Orthoptera: Caelifera: Tetrigidae). Insecta Mundi, 723, 1–38.

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

From Latin mucro, sharp point, in allusion ot the terminally pointed pronotum.