species
Paralethus montanus Cadena-Castañeda & Chamé-Vásquez, 2024
Type specimen
Holotype; male; 56be7b07-28ce-4405-9b78-028ee923ed81; deposited at: Colección de Artrópodos y otros Invertebrados, Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, Bogotá, Colombia (CAUD); Mexico: Chiapas: Cerro Mozotal, Motozintla
Nomenclature (1)
- Paralethus montanus Cadena-Castañeda & Chamé-Vásquez, 2024: 70.
Holotype; male; 56be7b07-28ce-4405-9b78-028ee923ed81; deposited at: Colección de Artrópodos y otros Invertebrados, Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, Bogotá, Colombia (CAUD); Mexico: Chiapas: Cerro Mozotal, Motozintla
Nomenclature references (1)
- Cadena-Castañeda, O.J. & Chamé-Vásquez, E.R. (2024) Studies on Eumastacoid grasshoppers: Paralethus montanus n. sp. (Orthoptera: Episactidae) from Chiapas, Mexico. Zootaxa, 5410(1), 67–78. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5410.1.3
Collection object
Type material
Descendants and synonyms
Gender, form, and etymology
Adjectivemontanus, montana, montanum
Etymology:
Etymology:
The species epithet “montanus” is the Latinized form of “montane”. It refers to altitudinal distribution of this species, which has been found at 3020 m, much higher than the other species of the genus (1600–2000 m).
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