Coracinotus Explained

Coracinotus is a genus of European bush crickets in the tribe Ephippigerini, first described by J. Barat in 2012.^[1] To date (2023) species have only been recorded from the Iberian peninsula.

Species

Barranco & Gómez (2014)^[2] provide a key to the species of Coracinotus. The Orthoptera Species File^[3] lists:

1. Coracinotus notarioi (Gómez, Pardo & Llorente del Moral, 1998) - type species (as Steropleurus notarioi Gómez, Pardo & Llorente del Moral)
2. Coracinotus politus (Bolívar, 1901)
3. Coracinotus presai Barranco & Gómez, 2014
4. Coracinotus squamiferus (Bolívar, 1907)

Notes and References

1. Barat J (2012) Revisión preliminar de los géneros de Ephippigerini Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878 (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Bradyporinae). Boletín de la Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa 50: 18.
2. Barranco, Gómez R (2014) Boln. Asoc. esp. Entomol. 38(1-2): 149-156.
3. http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1132538 Orthoptera Species File: genus Coracinotus Barat, 2012 (retrieved 2 June 2023)