genus
Pixibinthus Robillard & Anso, 2016
Type
type species by original designation of
Nomenclature (4)
- Pixibinthus Robillard & Anso, 2016 in Anso, Barrabé, Desutter-Grandcolas, Jourdan, Grandcolas, Dong & Robillard, 2016
type species by original designation Pixibinthus sonicus Anso & Robillard, 2016
- Pixibinthus Robillard & Anso, 2016 in Desutter-Grandcolas, Anso & Jourdan, 2016: 446.
- Pixibinthus Robillard & Anso, 2016 in Tan, Malem, Legendre, Dong, Baroga-Barbecho, Yap, Wahab, Japir, Chung & Robillard, 2021
- Pixibinthus Robillard & Anso, 2016 in Le Flanchec, Salazar, Malem, Vendanger, Poirier, Dutertre, Bonillo, Chifflet-Belle, Legendre, Nattier & Robillard, 2025
Nomenclature references (4)
- Anso, J., Barrabé, L., Desutter-Grandcolas, L., Jourdan, H., Grandcolas, P., Dong, J. & Robillard, T. (2016) Old lineage on an old island: Pixibinthus, a new cricket genus endemic to New Caledonia shed light on gryllid diversification in a hotspot of biodiversity. PLoS One, 11(3 (e0150920). Available at http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0150920
- Desutter-Grandcolas, L., Anso, J. & Jourdan, H. (2016) Crickets of New Caledonia (Insecta, Orthoptera, Grylloidea): a key to genera, with diagnoses of extant genera and descriptions of new taxa. Zoosystema, 38(4), 405–452. Available at http://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques/zoosystema/38/4/les-grillons-de-nouvelle-caledonie-insecta-orthoptera-grylloidea-cle-d-identification-des-genres-diagnoses-des-genres-existants-et-description-de-nouveaux-taxons
- Le Flanchec, T., Salazar, K., Malem, J., Vendanger, J., Poirier, E., Dutertre, V., Bonillo, C., Chifflet-Belle, P., Legendre, F., Nattier, R. & Robillard, T. (2025) Early colonization of New Caledonia by ultrasonic crickets from New Guinea (Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Eneopterinae): Historical biogeography and description of a new genus. Systematic Entomology, 50(2), 269–295. https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12656
- Tan, M.K., Malem, J., Legendre, F., Dong, J., Baroga-Barbecho, J.B., Yap, S.A., Wahab, R.A., Japir, R., Chung, A.Y.C. & Robillard, T. (2021) Phylogeny, systematics and evolution of calling songs of the Lebinthini crickets (Orthoptera, Grylloidea, Eneopterinae), with description of two new genera. Systematic Entomology. Available at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/syen.12510
Descendants and synonyms
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:
Named after ‘Pixie’, the diminutive mythical creatures of folklore, hidden by nature, close but unseen, as these crickets which were never encountered by previous authors despite past extensive studies on crickets in New Caledonia.
Stats
| Taxon | Valid names | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Extant | Fossil | Invalid | Total |
| genus | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| species | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |