CollectionObject 1539598; 6ee6552c-9644-41f4-ac3b-550dbac07cef: male, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1539598; 6ee6552c-9644-41f4-ac3b-550dbac07cef: male, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1539598; 6ee6552c-9644-41f4-ac3b-550dbac07cef: male, dorsal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1539598; 6ee6552c-9644-41f4-ac3b-550dbac07cef: male face (holotype). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (4)

  • Uchuca similis Montealegre-Z. & Morris, 2003: 511.

    Holotype; male; 6ee6552c-9644-41f4-ac3b-550dbac07cef; deposited at: Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (MNHN); Peru: Loreto: Loreto, Iquitos, Quistococha

  • Uchuca similis Montealegre-Z. & Morris, 2003 in Naskrecki, 2007: 27.
  • Uchuca similis Montealegre-Z. & Morris, 2003 in Tavares, Sovano & Nunes, 2016: 549.
  • Hyperomerus similis (Montealegre-Z. & Morris, 2003) in Tavares & Nunes, 2021: 46.

Nomenclature references (4)

  • Montealegre-Z., F. & Morris, G.K. (2003) Uchuca Giglio-Tos, Dectinomima Caudell and their allies (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Conocephalinae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 129(3-4), 503–537.
  • Naskrecki, P. (2007) Katydids of selected sites in the Konashen Community Owned Conservation Area (COCA), southern Guyana. RAP Bulletin of Biological Assessment, 51, 25–30. Available at http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1896/054.051.0106
  • Tavares, G.C. & Nunes, A.L. (2021) Rediscovering the poorly-known Neotropical katydid Hyperomerus crassipes Redtenbacher, 1891 (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Conocephalinae: Agraeciini): description of male reveals the synonymic status of Uchuca Giglio-Tos, 1898. Zootaxa, 4903(1), 42–54.
  • Tavares, G.C., Sovano, R.S.da S. & Nunes, A.L. (2016) Clarification of the katydid genus Uchuca Giglio-Tos, 1898 (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae): A new species in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest. Zootaxa, 4139(4), 542–550.

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

Referring to the resemblance to U. grisea (Hyperomerus griseus).

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