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- Animalia
- Neoptera
- Polyneoptera
- Orthopterida
- Orthoptera
- Ensifera
- Tettigoniidea
- Tettigonioidea
- Tettigoniidae
- Conocephalinae
- Agraeciini
- Agraeciina
- Iaratrox Chamorro-Rengifo & Lopes-Andrade, 2015
genus
Iaratrox Chamorro-Rengifo & Lopes-Andrade, 2015
Type
Agroecia [sic] maculata Redtenbacher, 1891 type species by original designation of Iaratrox Chamorro-Rengifo & Lopes-Andrade, 2015
Nomenclature (1)
- Iaratrox Chamorro-Rengifo & Lopes-Andrade, 2015 in Chamorro-Rengifo, Braun & Lopes-Andrade, 2015: 28.
type species by original designation Agroecia [sic] maculata Redtenbacher, 1891
Nomenclature references (1)
- Chamorro-Rengifo, J., Braun, H. & Lopes-Andrade, C. (2015) Reassessment and division of the genus Agraecia Audinet-Serville (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Conocephalinae: Agraeciini). Zootaxa, 3993(1), 1–74 [error: 1–76].
Descendants and synonyms
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:
The genus name is composed of the indigenous Tupi word “iara” and the Latin word atrox (meaning: cruel). Iara is a mermaid of the Brazilian mythology, who has green eyes and brown skin, notorious for attracting and drowning men in the water. The name refers to the combination of green eyes and frontal ocellus and the brownish body colour, characteristic of all individuals captured alive. The gender is feminine.
Stats
| Names | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Total | Valid | Invalid |
| genus | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| species | 8 | 4 | 4 |