genus

Paralethus Rowell & Perez-Gelabert, 2006

Type

type species by original designation of

Paralethus Rowell & Perez-Gelabert, 2006: 209.
type species by original designation Paralethus insolitus Rowell & Perez-Gelabert, 2006
Paralethus Rowell & Perez-Gelabert, 2006 in Cadena-Castañeda & Monzón-Sierra, 2014: 382.

Paralethus Rowell & Perez-Gelabert, 2006 in Cadena-Castañeda & Chamé-Vásquez, 2024: 68, 89.

Cadena-Castañeda, O.J. & Chamé-Vásquez, E.R. (2024) Studies on Eumastacoid grasshoppers: Paralethus montanus n. sp. (Orthoptera: Episactidae) from Chiapas, Mexico. Zootaxa, 5410(1), 67–78. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5410.1.3
Cadena-Castañeda, O.J. & Monzón-Sierra, J. (2014) Studies in Guatemalan Caelifera: New grasshoppers and monkey grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Caelifera: Acridoidea & Eumastacoidea) and an updated checklist. Zootaxa, 3857(3), 379–411.

Rowell, C.H.F. & Perez-Gelabert, D.E. (2006) The status of the Espagnolinae (Rehn 1948) and other subfamilies of the Episactidae (Descamps 1973) (Eumastacoidea, Caelifera, Orthoptera), with description of two new genera, Paralethus and Neibamastax. Journal of Orthoptera Research, 15(2), 191–240. Available at http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.1665/1082-6467%282006%2915%5B191%3ATSOTER%5D2.0.CO%3B2

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

Derived from Lethus Rehn & Rehn, 1934.