Neanias[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: Indian subcontinent, Japan, Hainan, Indochina, and western Malesia (Sumatra).[2]

Neanias
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Ensifera
Family: Gryllacrididae
Tribe: Gryllacridini
Genus: Neanias
Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1888
Synonyms

Neanius Tepper, 1892

Species

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The Orthoptera Species File[2] lists:

  1. Neanias amplus Gorochov, 2008
  2. Neanias angustipennis Gorochov, 2008
  3. Neanias atroterminatus Karny, 1937
  4. Neanias bezzii Griffini, 1914
  5. Neanias erinaceus Gorochov, 2008
  6. Neanias medius Gorochov, 2008
  7. Neanias ogasawarensis Vickery & Kevan, 1999
  8. Neanias parvus Gorochov, 2008
  9. Neanias pliginskyi Gorochov, 2008
  10. Neanias squamatus Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1888 - type species (by subsequent designation[3])
  11. Neanias subapterus Karny, 1924
  12. Neanias virens Ingrisch, 2018

Note: Neanias magnus Matsumura & Shiraki, 1908, from Taiwan, is now placed in genus Metriogryllacris.

References

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  1. Brunner von Wattenwyl (1888) Verh. der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellsch. Wien 38: 373.
  2. 1 2 Orthoptera Species File (version 5.0: retrieved 29 December 2020)
  3. Kirby WF (1906) A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae) 2:i-viii, 1-562.
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