Arulenus

Genus of grasshoppers From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Arulenus is a genus of pygmy grasshopper. As of 2016, it consists of two species:

Phylum:Arthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Orthoptera
Suborder:Caelifera
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Arulenus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Caelifera
Family: Tetrigidae
Subfamily: Scelimeninae
Genus: Arulenus
Stål, 1877
Type species
Arulenus validispinus
Stål, 1877
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Both species are endemic to Mindanao in the Philippines.

Description

Characteristic features of this genus include: the lack of tegmina and of alae, a smooth pronotum with large, slightly wrinkled spines on its discus, and outwardly turned lateral paranotal lobes.[1]: 385 

Taxonomic history

Carl Stål circumscribed Arulenus in 1877 for the species A. validispinus and A. punctatus, which Stål described in the same paper.[2] In 1887, Ignacio Bolívar transferred A. punctatus to its own, new genus Hirrius, giving it the name Hirrius punctatus.[3] Arulenus would be considered a monospecific genus until 2016 with Josip Skejo and Joy Honezza S. Caballero's description of Arulenus miae.[1]

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