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Igatuia cavernicola Mendes Carvalho, Souza-Silva & Lopes Ferreira, 2025

Nomenclature (1)

  • Igatuia cavernicola Mendes Carvalho, Souza-Silva & Lopes Ferreira, 2025: 6.

    Holotype; male; ISLA 144199; deposited at: Coleção de Invertebrados Subterrâneos de Lavras, Universidade Federal de Lavras, Minas Gerais (ISLA); Brazil: Bahia: Andaraí, village Igatu, Gruna Canal da Fumaça

Nomenclature references (1)

  • Mendes Carvalho, P.H., Souza-Silva, M. & Lopes Ferreira, R. (2025) Crickets among diamonds: Uncovering a new genus of Phalangopsidae (Orthoptera: Grylloidea) from caves in Central Bahia State, Brazil. Taxonomy, 5(55), 1–20. https://doi.org/10.3390/taxonomy5040055

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

The specific epithet derives from Latin caverna (cave) and -cola (inhabitant, dweller), referring to the subterranean habitats where all specimens were found.

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