genus

Brazitettix Silva, 2024

Type

type species by original designation of

Brazitettix Silva, 2024 in Silva & Pereira, 2024: 3.
type species by original designation Brazitettix roraimae Silva, 2024
Brazitettix Silva, 2024 (classified as Miriatrina Cadena-Castañeda & Cardona, 2015) in Cadena-Castañeda, Quintana-Arias, Infante, Silva & Tavares, 2025: 96, 106, 256.

Cadena-Castañeda, O.J., Quintana-Arias, R.F., Infante, I.C., Silva, D.S.M. & Tavares, G.C. (2025) Studies on pygmy grasshoppers: On the current Metrodorinae sensu lato classification (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae) with emphasis on American and Malagasy taxa. Zootaxa, 5597(1), 1–265. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5597.1.1
Silva, D.S.M. & Pereira, M.R. (2024) A new genus of horn-like tetrigids (Orthoptera: Caelifera: Tetrigidae) from South America. Insecta Mundi, 1072, 1–15.

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

The name is a combination of Brazi– (in honor to Brazil) and –tettix (Greek, meaning “grasshopper”).