Type

Anacaona bellatrix Yong, 2019 type species by original designation of Anacaona Yong, 2019

Nomenclature (2)

  • Anacaona Yong, 2019: 245.

    type species by original designation Anacaona bellatrix Yong, 2019

  • Anacaona Yong, 2019 (classified as Copiphorini Karny, 1912) in Cadena-Castañeda, Prieto-Cristancho, Romero-Bentancourt, Braun & García García, 2020: 138.

Nomenclature references (2)

  • Cadena-Castañeda, O.J., Prieto-Cristancho, D., Romero-Bentancourt, L., Braun, H. & García García, A. (2020) Studies in Neotropical Pseudophyllinae: A new genus of Cocconotini from the Colombian Andes and new subfamily assignment of the Dominican genus Anacaona (Tettigoniidae: Pseudophyllinae: Cocconotini). Zootaxa, 4885(1), 133–138.
  • Yong, S. (2019) Three new genera and four new species of katydids (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) from Cuba and Hispaniola, Greater Antilles. Ecologica Montenegrina, 20, 222–256. Available at http://www.biotaxa.org/em/article/view/49333

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

This genus is named after Anacaona (born in 1474, murdered by hanging in 1503), the well-known Taino woman that ruled the Jaragua chiefdom in Hispaniola and was also said to be the greatest Caribbean beauty.

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