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Tropicophyllum gurupi Mendes & Rafael, 2025

Nomenclature (1)

  • Tropicophyllum gurupi Mendes & Rafael, 2025: 168.

    Holotype; male; 48423343-69fb-427c-b6c9-f2b2ee93a327; deposited at: Coleção de Zoologia do Maranhão, Universidade Estadual do Maranhão, Caxias, MA, Brazil (CZMA); Brazil: Maranhão: Bom Jardim, REBIO–Reserva Biológica Gurupi, armadilha luminosa base

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:

The epithet gurupi comes from the Brazilian indigenous language Tupi and means “pure diamond”, in reference to the type locality of this species, the Gurupi Biological Reserve.

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