Melaneremus Explained

Melaneremus^[1] is a genus of Orthopterans, sometimes known as 'leaf-folding crickets' in the subfamily Gryllacridinae and tribe Gryllacridini. The recorded distribution (probably incomplete) is: the Indian subcontinent, China, Indochina, western Malesia and western Pacific islands.^[2]

Species

The Orthoptera Species File^[2] lists:

• Melaneremus atrotectus (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1888)
  type species (as Eremus atro-tectus Brunner von Wattenwyl)
• Melaneremus bellus Tan & Wahab, 2018
• Melaneremus bilobus Bey-Bienko, 1957
• Melaneremus borneensis (Karny, 1925)
• Melaneremus canillii (Griffini, 1915)
• Melaneremus fruhstorferi (Griffini, 1914)
• Melaneremus fuscoterminatus (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1888)
• Melaneremus harmandi (Griffini, 1912)
• Melaneremus henryi Karny, 1937
• Melaneremus javanicus (Karny, 1924)
• Melaneremus kempi (Griffini, 1914)
• Melaneremus kosraensis Vickery & Kevan, 1999
• Melaneremus laticeps (Karny, 1926)
• Melaneremus marianae Vickery & Kevan, 1999
• Melaneremus nigrosignatus (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893)
• Melaneremus philippinus (Griffini, 1908)
• Melaneremus pupulus (Bolívar, 1900)
• Melaneremus saiensis Vickery & Kevan, 1999
• Melaneremus sikkimensis Ingrisch, 2018

Notes and References

1. Karny (1937) Genera Insectorum 206: 148.
2. http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1130603 Orthoptera Species File (version 5.0: retrieved 29 December 2020)