Genus

Macrotona Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893

Type

type species by subsequent monotypy of Macrotona Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893

Macrotona Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893: 142.
type species by subsequent monotypy Macrotona lineola Brancsik, 1895
Eumacrotona Sjöstedt, 1920: 20.
type species by subsequent designation Eumacrotona picta Sjöstedt, 1920 in Sjöstedt, 1921

Eumacrotona Sjöstedt, 1920 (subjective synonym of Macrotona Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893) in Otte, 1995: 235.
Macrotona Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 in Yin, Shi & Yin, 1996: 385.

Brunner von Wattenwyl, C. (1893) Révision du système des Orthoptères et déscription des espèces rapportées par M. Leonardo Fea de Birmanie. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, 13(33), 1–230. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/25035
Sjöstedt, Y. (1920) Results of Dr. E. Mjöbergs Swedish scientific expeditions to Australia 1910-1913. 20. Acridiodea. Arkiv för Zoologi, 12(20), 1–67. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/30230#page/613/mode/1up

Otte, D. (1995) Orthoptera Species File 4. Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] C. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 518 pp.
Yin, X.-C., Shi, J. & Yin, Z. (1996) Synonymic Catalogue of Grasshoppers and their Allies of the World (Orthoptera: Caelifera). China Forestry Publishing House, Beijing, 1266 pp.

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

From superlative form of μακρόν (long), alluding to the elongate appearance.