genus
Tuaia Mendes, Chamorro-Rengifo & Rafael, 2020
Type
type species by original designation of
Nomenclature (2)
- Tuaia Mendes, Chamorro-Rengifo & Rafael, 2020: 75.
type species by original designation Tuaia panacarica Mendes, Chamorro-Rengifo & Rafael, 2020
- Tuaia Mendes, Chamorro-Rengifo & Rafael, 2020 (classified as Microcentrina Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878) in Gorochov, 2026: 3.
Nomenclature references (2)
- Gorochov, A.V. (2026) Systematics of the American katydids (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae). Communication 13: the subtribes Microcentrina and Stilpnochlorina subtrib.n. Russian Entomological Journal, 35(1), 1–67. https://doi.org/10.15298/rusentj.35.1.01
- 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 Tupi-Guarani indigenous language and meaning “hairy”, referring to the large number of bristles that cover body and legs of representatives of the genus.
Stats
| Taxon | Valid names | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Extant | Fossil | Invalid | Total |
| genus | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| subgenus | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| species | 5 | 0 | 2 | 7 |