Xistrella

Xistrella
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Caelifera
Family: Tetrigidae
Tribe: Xistrellini
Genus: Xistrella
Bolívar, 1909
Synonyms
  • Clivitettix Yin, 1984
  • Pseudogignotettix Liang, 1990
  • Xistrelia [sic] Bolívar, 1909
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Xistrella is a genus of Asian groundhoppers (Orthoptera: Caelifera); originally erected by Ignacio Bolívar in 1909, it is now the type genus of the new (2025) tribe Xistrellini. The (possibly incomplete) recorded species distribution includes the Indian subcontinent, Sri Lanka, China, parts of Indochina, and western Malesia including the Philippines.

Species

The Orthoptera Species File lists:

  1. Xistrella acuteterminata (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893)
  2. Xistrella arorai Shishodia, 1991
  3. Xistrella aruna Ingrisch, 2001
  4. Xistrella bannaensis (Deng, Wang, Mao & Li, 2022)
  5. Xistrella brachynota (Li, Deng & Zheng, 2014)
  6. Xistrella cambodia (Storozhenko, 2021)
  7. Xistrella cliva Zheng & Liang, 1991
  8. Xistrella dengi Skejo, Kasalo, Tumbrinck & Storozhenko, 2025
  9. Xistrella dohrni Günther, 1939
  10. Xistrella dromadaria Bolívar, 1909 – type species
  11. Xistrella dubia (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893)
  12. Xistrella emeiensis (Zheng, 1995)
  13. Xistrella foliolata (Liang & Chen, 2010)
  14. Xistrella guangdongensis (Liang, 1990)
  15. Xistrella hainanensis Deng, 2019
  16. Xistrella hunanensis Wang, 1999
  17. Xistrella javanensis (Günther, 1937)
  18. Xistrella jiulianshanensis (Zheng & Shi, 2009)
  19. Xistrella laticorna (Zheng, 1988)
  20. Xistrella lativertex (Zheng & Mao, 2010)
  21. Xistrella lochengensis (Zheng, 2005)
  22. Xistrella longidorsalis (Liang & Jiang, 2004)
  23. Xistrella medogensis (Zheng, 2005)
  24. Xistrella motuoensis (Yin, 1984)
  25. Xistrella nigriabdominis (Deng, 2022)
  26. Xistrella nigrinota (Zheng & Xu, 2010)
  27. Xistrella nigritibialis (Zheng & Jiang, 2002)
  28. Xistrella ophthalmica (Bolívar, 1909)
  29. Xistrella orchotibia (Deng, Wang, Mao & Li, 2022)
  30. Xistrella parvula (Liang & Chen, 2010)
  31. Xistrella shilinensis (Zheng, 2015)
  32. Xistrella siangensis Shishodia, 1991
  33. Xistrella strictivertex (Zheng & Ou, 2010)
  34. Xistrella stylata (Hancock, 1907)
  35. Xistrella wuyishana Zheng & Liang, 1991
  36. Xistrella wuyishanensis (Zheng & Zeng, 2011)
  37. Xistrella zhengi (Deng, 2024)

References

  1. ↑ Bolívar I (1909) Nouvelles espèces d'Acridiens du Musée de Genève. Boletín de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural, 9, 393–403. Available here
  2. ↑ Skejo J, Kasalo N, Patano RR Jr., Storozhenko SY, Tumbrinck J, Domazet-Lošo T, Amoroso VB, Yap SA, Škorput J (2025) Taxonomic revision of pygmy devil genera Almacris, Ginixistra, Tegotettix and Xistra, with comments on Xistrella (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae). Taxonomy, 5(60), 1–47. DOI
  3. 1 2 Orthoptera Species File: genus Xistrella Bolívar, 1909 (retrieved 15 February 2026).