Genus

Cnemidophyllum Rehn, 1917

Type

type species by original designation of Cnemidophyllum Rehn, 1917

Cnemidophyllum Rehn, 1917: 118.
type species by original designation Posidippus lineatus Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1891
Cnemidophyllum Rehn, 1917 in Emsley, 1970: 184, 186.

Cnemidophyllum Rehn, 1917 in Montealegre-Z., 1997: 66.
Cnemidophyllum Rehn, 1917 (classified as Steirodontina Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878) in Gorochov, 2025: 15.

Rehn, J.A.G. (1917) Some critical notes on the giant katydids forming the group Steirodontia (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae, Phaneropterinae). Entomological News, 28, 107–122. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/20201#page/143/mode/1up
Emsley, M.G. (1970) A revision of the steirodontine katydids (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Phaneroperinae: Steirodontini). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 122, 125–248. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=uvGq6HczEa0C&pg

Montealegre-Z., F. (1997) Clave para la identificación de los Tettigoniidae de la reserva natural de Escalerete, Buenaventura. Cespedesia, 21(68), 57–88.
Gorochov, A.V. (2025) Systematics of the American katydids (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae). Communication 12: the subtribes Steirodontina and Anaulacomerina. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS, 329(1), 13–47. https://doi.org/10.31610/trudyzin/2025.329.1.13

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

From Greek κνημίς = greaves and φύλλον = leaf, alluding to the lamellate expanded midle and hind tibiae.