species
Paralethus montanus Cadena-Castañeda & Chamé-Vásquez, 2024
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
Descendants and synonyms
Gender, form, and 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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