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Conocephalus (Xenocerculus) tuyu Rubio & Braun, 2024

CollectionObject 1952079; 840d8944-6417-43d9-8a6d-6d921dd2c1b1, MLP-OR-3242: male in situ (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1952079; 840d8944-6417-43d9-8a6d-6d921dd2c1b1, MLP-OR-3242: male in situ (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1952079; 840d8944-6417-43d9-8a6d-6d921dd2c1b1, MLP-OR-3242: male, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1952079; 840d8944-6417-43d9-8a6d-6d921dd2c1b1, MLP-OR-3242: male, dorsal view (holotype, mirror damaged in posterior left corner). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1952124; d8838097-6b3b-4378-9b8d-77d32e441a81, MLP-OR-3120: male, dorsal view (paratype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1952124; d8838097-6b3b-4378-9b8d-77d32e441a81, MLP-OR-3120: male abdomen tip, dorsal view (paratype). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (1)

  • Conocephalus (Xenocerculus) tuyu Rubio & Braun, 2024: 116.

    Holotype; male; MLP-OR-3242; deposited at: Museo de La Plata (MLP); Argentina: Buenos Aires: Partido La Costa, north of San Clemente del Tuyú

Nomenclature references (1)

  • Rubio, L. & Braun, H. (2024) A new species of Conocephalus (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Conocephalinae) from Argentina with extraordinarily broad-band ultrasound calling song. Zootaxa, 5437(1), 115–120. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5437.1.7

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Tuyú is of Guaraní origin, meaning mud or marshland, and is the name of the region in the very east of Buenos Aires Province where the species was found.

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