Elcanonympha Heads & Thomas, 2018

Heads, Sam W., Thomas, M. Jared & Wang, Yinan, 2018, A new genus and species of Elcanidae (Insecta: Orthoptera) from Cretaceous Burmese amber, Zootaxa 4527 (4), pp. 575-580 : 576

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4527.4.8

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:7B81A01C-6B32-4CDC-9723-535C7075C10B

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5987591

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A07B87A7-FFFD-AB0E-6EAC-FDEBFBF4FC9F

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scientific name

Elcanonympha Heads & Thomas
status

gen. nov.

Genus Elcanonympha Heads & Thomas View in CoL , gen. nov.

Type species. Elcanonympha diana Heads & Thomas , sp. nov.

Etymology. A combination of Elcana and the word nymph.

Diagnosis. Pronotum cut by a single, shallow transverse sulcus; pro- and mesofemora with one inner and one outer, leaf-like apical spurs; dorsal margin of metafemoral genicula with row of prominent apical denticles; distal third of metabasitarsus with row of apically directed scale-like spines on ventral surface.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Orthoptera

Family

Elcanidae

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