genus

Hancockiella Cadena-Castañeda & Cardona-Granda, 2015

Type

type species by original designation of

Hancockiella Cadena-Castañeda & Cardona-Granda, 2015: 481.
type species by original designation Hancockiella armata Cadena-Castañeda & Cardona-Granda, 2015
Hancockiella Cadena-Castañeda & Cardona-Granda, 2015 in Storozhenko, 2023: 68.

Hancockiella Cadena-Castañeda & Cardona-Granda, 2015 in Kasalo, Yong, Rebrina & Skejo, 2023: 188.
Hancockiella Cadena-Castañeda & Cardona-Granda, 2015 (classified as Metrodorina Bolívar, 1887) in Cadena-Castañeda, Quintana-Arias, Infante, Silva & Tavares, 2025: 13, 51, 253.

Cadena-Castañeda, O.J. & Cardona-Granda, J.M. (2015) Introducción a los Saltamontes de Colombia (Orthoptera: Caelifera: Acrididea: Acridomorpha, Tetrigoidea & Tridactyloidea). 1–534 pp.
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
Storozhenko, S.Y. (2023) New curious genus of the subfamily Cladonotinae (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae) from Borneo Island with remarks on the classification of this subfamily. Zootaxa, 5315(1), 59–70.

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

In Memory of the entomologist Joseph Lane Hancock (1864-1922) who contributed significantly to the study of the world's Tetrigidae.