Nomenclature (3)

  • Hebardidora kasaloi Cadena-Castañeda & Tavares, 2025 in Cadena-Castañeda, Quintana-Arias, Infante, Silva & Tavares, 2025: 60.

    Holotype; male; 486db47d-c08b-48f0-9b16-dbfb722bab13; deposited at: Colección de Artrópodos y otros Invertebrados, Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, Bogotá, Colombia (CAUD); Costa Rica: Puntarenas: Golfito: Guaycará, La Gamba Field Station

  • Metrodora ala Kasalo & Skejo, 2025 in Kasalo, Janzen, Hallwachs, Brown, Husemann, Vielsäcker, Domazet-Lošo, Franjević, Subedi, Bogić & Skejo, 2025: 21.

    Holotype; male; 3db85613-a70f-41d7-a019-ebf18c0c9c99; deposited at: Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe (SMNK); Costa Rica: Puntarenas: Golfito: Area de Conservación Osa, Parque Nacional Corcovado, Sector Sirena

  • Metrodora ala Kasalo & Skejo, 2025 (subjective synonym of Hebardidora kasaloi Cadena-Castañeda & Tavares, 2025) in Cadena-Castañeda, Moreno Alvarez, Quintana-Arias, García García & Tavares, 2025: 360.

Nomenclature references (3)

  • Cadena-Castañeda, O.J., Moreno Alvarez, E.J., Quintana-Arias, R.F., García García, A. & Tavares, G.C. (2025) Studies on pygmy grasshoppers: Redescription of the male and description of the female of Metrodora rana Bolívar, 1887 (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae) with new records to Colombia and Brazil. Zootaxa, 5633(2), 351–363. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5633.2.7
  • 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
  • Kasalo, N., Janzen, D.H., Hallwachs, W., Brown, A., Husemann, M., Vielsäcker, M., Domazet-Lošo, T., Franjević, D., Subedi, M., Bogić, D. & Skejo, J. (2025) Integrative taxonomy of Costa Rican Tetrigidae (Orthoptera) reveals eight new species. Diversity, 17(3, 190), 1–34. https://doi.org/10.3390/d17030190

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

Latin word “ala” (wing). The name refers to the fact that the lateral lobes of the pronotum are spread out like wings when seen from above.

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