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Anapolisia cacaia Mendes & Rafael, 2025

Nomenclature (1)

  • Anapolisia cacaia Mendes & Rafael, 2025: 72.

    Holotype; male; a83b1248-ade1-41a7-8704-4db8901de146; deposited at: Coleção de Zoologia do Maranhão, Universidade Estadual do Maranhão, Caxias, MA, Brazil (CZMA); Brazil: Maranhão: Parque Estadual Mirador, Base Geraldina

Nomenclature references (1)

  • Mendes, D.M.de M. & Rafael, J.A. (2025) Review of Anapolisia Piza, 1980 and Tropicophyllum Koçak & Kemal, 2008 stat. rev. (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Phaneropterinae: Microcentrini). Zootaxa, 5564(1), 1–184. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5564.1.1

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Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Cacaia (ka’a + kaî + a) comes from the indigenous language Nheengatu and means burnt forest, in reference to the Cerrado, the environment to which this species is native and which suffers from periodic natural fires.

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