Revision of the Genus Ranacris You & Lin, 1983 (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Catantopinae), with Proposal of a New Synonym

<i>Ranacris</i> You & Lin, 1983, is a small genus in the subfamily Habrocneminae with an undefined phylogenetic position, exhibiting in previous molecular studies a distant relationship with the genera in the same subfamily but an extremely close relationship with the genus <i>Menglacris</i> Jiang & Zheng, 1994, in another subfamily, Catantopinae. In this study, a taxonomic revision of <i>Ranacris</i> was conducted based on the examination of types and non-type material and the comparison of qualitative and quantitative characters. A morphometric analysis was carried out to test the statistical significance of the quantitative distinguishing characters among <i>Ranacris</i>. A new junior synonym is proposed: <i>R. yunnanensis</i> Mao, Ren & Ou, 2011 = <i>R. jinpingensis</i> Zheng, Lin, Deng & Shi, 2015, <b>syn. nov</b>.