Nomenclature (1)

  • Caauara tupana Mendes, Chamorro-Rengifo & Rafael, 2020: 54.

    Holotype; male; e23688a6-18dd-458d-b421-82d0ea8d5d0f; deposited at: Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia (INPA); Brazil: Amazonas: Careiro Castanho, BR–319, km 180, Fazenda São Paulo

Nomenclature references (1)

  • Mendes, D.M.de M., Chamorro-Rengifo, J. & Rafael, J.A. (2020) Five new genera of angle-wing katydids (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Phaneropterinae: Microcentrini) from the Amazon Rainforest. Zootaxa, 4828(1), 1–84.

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

In the Brazilian Tupi-guarani "tu’pã ou tu’pana" means “the thunder”, the main god of the Tupi Pantheon. It also refers to the Tupana River that passes through the type locality.

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