Anancistrogera Explained

Anancistrogera^[1] is a genus of Orthopterans, sometimes known as 'leaf-folding crickets' in the tribe Gryllacridini and typical of the newly erected genus group Anancistrogerae.^[2] The recorded distribution is: Sri Lanka, Thailand and western Malesia (but locality records are probably incomplete).^[3]

Note this genus name should not be confused with Aancistroger in the tribe Phryganogryllacridini.

Species

The Orthoptera Species File^[3] lists:

1. Anancistrogera bicornuta (Karny, 1930)
2. Anancistrogera brachyptera (Gerstaecker, 1860)
   - type species (as Gryllacris brachyptera Gerstaecker = A. brachyptera brachyptera)
3. Anancistrogera ceylonica Karny, 1937
4. Anancistrogera chopardi (Karny, 1926)
5. Anancistrogera cornualis (Ingrisch, 2018)
6. Anancistrogera crucispina (Karny, 1929)
7. Anancistrogera dubia Willemse, 1953
8. Anancistrogera fuscinervis (Stål, 1877)
9. Anancistrogera genualis (Walker, 1869)
10. Anancistrogera isseli (Griffini, 1913)
11. Anancistrogera limbaticollis (Stål, 1877)
12. Anancistrogera nigrogeniculata (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1888)
13. Anancistrogera nigroscutata (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1888)
14. Anancistrogera palauensis Vickery & Kevan, 1999
15. Anancistrogera plebeja (Stål, 1877)
16. Anancistrogera recticauda (Karny, 1925)
17. Anancistrogera sarasini (Karny, 1931)

Notes and References

1. Karny HH (1937) Genera Insectorum 206: 135.
2. Cadena-Castañeda (2019) Zootaxa 4605(1): 74.
3. http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1130913 Orthoptera Species File (version 5.0: retrieved 16 July 2022)