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Tropicophyllum tucurauna Mendes & Rafael, 2025

Nomenclature (1)

  • Tropicophyllum tucurauna Mendes & Rafael, 2025: 146.

    Holotype; male; 2514a323-292c-44d7-ace4-9f4a49c83471; deposited at: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ); Brazil: Rio de Janeiro: Jussaral

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

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Tucurauna comes from the Tupi indigenous language, tucura (katydid) + una (black) and means black katydid, in reference to the dark color of the dry specimens.

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