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species

Atsigryllus sikuani Cadena-Castañeda & Tíjaro, 2020

Type specimen

Holotype; male; 6c15d68c-2766-4b52-a7d1-547d6610430d; deposited at: Colección de Artrópodos y otros Invertebrados, Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, Bogotá, Colombia (CAUD); Colombia: Meta: Villavicencio, Vereda La Argentina

Nomenclature (2)

  • Atsigryllus sikuani Cadena-Castañeda & Tíjaro, 2020 in Cadena-Castañeda & García García, 2020: 279.
  • Atsigryllus sikuani Cadena-Castañeda & Tíjaro, 2020: 577.

    Holotype; male; 6c15d68c-2766-4b52-a7d1-547d6610430d; deposited at: Colección de Artrópodos y otros Invertebrados, Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, Bogotá, Colombia (CAUD); Colombia: Meta: Villavicencio, Vereda La Argentina

Nomenclature references (2)

  • Cadena-Castañeda, O.J. & García García, A. (2020) Studies in Colombian Ensifera and adjacent countries: Gigagryllus, a new genus of giant field crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllidae) with comments on current Neotropical field crickets classification. Zootaxa, 4830(2), 273–290.
  • Cadena-Castañeda, O.J. & Tíjaro, M.H. (2020) Studies in Colombian Ensifera and adjacent countries: New taxa of smallest field crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Gryllinae). Zootaxa, 4809(3), 571–581.
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Descendants and synonyms

No records found.
Life zone and ecology data

Terrestrial

Gender, form, and etymology
Noun in apposition
Etymology:

In honor of the indigenous Sikuani or Guahibo people, who live in the Orinoco plains, between the rivers Guaviare, Meta and Arauca, in the Colombian departments of Vichada, Meta, Arauca, Guaviare and Guainía, as well as in Venezuela to the west of the states of Amazonas, Bolívar and south of Apure.

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