Xistrella is a genus of Asian groundhoppers (Orthoptera: Caelifera); originally erected by Ignacio Bolívar in 1909,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 it is now the type genus of the new (2025) tribe Xistrellini.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 The (possibly incomplete) recorded species distribution includes the Indian subcontinent, Sri Lanka, China, parts of Indochina, and western Malesia including the Philippines.Orthoptera Species File: genus Xistrella Bolívar, 1909 (retrieved 15 February 2026).
Species The Orthoptera Species File lists:
Xistrella acuteterminata Xistrella arorai Xistrella aruna Xistrella bannaensis Xistrella brachynota Xistrella cambodia Xistrella cliva Xistrella dengi Xistrella dohrni Xistrella dromadaria – type species Xistrella dubia Xistrella emeiensis Xistrella foliolata Xistrella guangdongensis Xistrella hainanensis Xistrella hunanensis Xistrella javanensis Xistrella jiulianshanensis Xistrella laticorna Xistrella lativertex Xistrella lochengensis Xistrella longidorsalis Xistrella medogensis Xistrella motuoensis Xistrella nigriabdominis Xistrella nigrinota Xistrella nigritibialis Xistrella ophthalmica Xistrella orchotibia Xistrella parvula Xistrella shilinensis Xistrella siangensis Xistrella strictivertex Xistrella stylata Xistrella wuyishana Xistrella wuyishanensis Xistrella zhengi
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