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Tropicophyllum tucuramiri Mendes & Rafael, 2025

Nomenclature (1)

  • Tropicophyllum tucuramiri Mendes & Rafael, 2025: 138.

    Holotype; male; 2be47f7d-47a0-424c-b72c-f1a0d178f66e; deposited at: Coleção de Zoologia do Maranhão, Universidade Estadual do Maranhão, Caxias, MA, Brazil (CZMA); Brazil: Maranhão: Bom Jardim, REBIO–Reserva Biológica Gurupi

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:

The epithet is in apposition, tucuramiri comes from the Brazilian Tupi indigenous language, tucura (katydid) + miri (little) and means “little katydid”, in reference to the small size of this katydid in relation to the other species of Tropicophyllum.

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