Yakkhapipteryx, Schall & Cao & Husemann, 2025

Schall, Ole-Kristian Odin, Cao, Chengquan & Husemann, Martin, 2025, New genera and species of Ripipterygidae (Orthoptera, Tridactyloidea) from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber, Contributions to Entomology 75 (2), pp. 253-262 : 253-262

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.3897/contrib.entomol.75.e154529
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:510CDD4C-55BA-496A-9457-C0275FC7EBDF
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16418295
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C6144F34-AC69-5A7B-9F3F-82D20EEADDB0
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scientific name	Yakkhapipteryx
status	gen. nov.

Treatment

Genus Yakkhapipteryx gen. nov.

Type species.

Yakkhapipteryx mirus comb. nov. ( Gu et al., 2022)

Included species.

Yakkhapipteryx mirus comb. nov., Y. gracilis comb. nov. ( Gu et al., 2022)

Etymology.

Named after the Yakkha (Sanskrit: Yaksha), guardians of buried treasures (in reference to amber) from Burmese mythology.

Diagnosis.

As provided by Gu et al. (2022) for Magnidactylus , which the authors based on the specimens now assigned to Yakkhapipteryx .

References

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Orthoptera
SubOrder	Caelifera
InfraOrder	Tridactylidea
SuperFamily	Tridactyloidea
Family	Ripipterygidae

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