genus

Pelecynotum Piza, 1967

Type

type species by original designation of Pelecynotum Piza, 1967

Pelecynotum Piza, 1967: 485.
type species by original designation Pelecynotum cristatum Piza, 1967
Pelecynotum Piza, 1967 in Otte, 1997: 183.
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Pelecynotum Piza, 1967 in Gorochov, 2016: 143.
Pelecynotum Piza, 1967 (classified as Anaulacomerini Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878) in Fianco & Melo, 2026

Cadena-Castañeda, O.J. (2015) La tribu Phaneropterini y adiciones a las subtribus Anaulacomerina y Pelecynotina n. subtr. (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Phaneropterinae): séptimo aporte a la organización supragenérica de los faneropterinos neotropicales. Boletín de la Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa, 57, 53–70.
Fianco, M. & Melo, G.A.R. (2026) Evolution of the false‐leaf katydids (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Phaneropterinae): Molecular phylogeny and divergence times. Systematic Entomology, 51(3). https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.70064
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Otte, D. (1997) Orthoptera Species File 7. Tettigonioidea. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 373 pp.
Piza, S.de T., Jr. (1967) Phaneropteridae de Poços de Caldas (Orthoptera). Studia Entomologica, N.S. (Petrópolis), 10(1-4), 481–489.

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

From Greek πέλεκῠς = axe, alluding to the shape of the pronotum.