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Spinaraptor gerana (Gorochov, 2015)

Type specimen

Holotype; male; 0d2145da-49a9-406c-9a36-de53b31e5c2e; deposited at: Russian Academy of Sciences, Zoological Institute, St. Petersburg (ZIN); Paraguay: Alto Paraguay: Reserva Pantanal Raraguayo, Estación Biológica Los Tres Gigantes

Nomenclature (2)

  • Phlugis gerana Gorochov, 2015: 499.

    Holotype; male; 0d2145da-49a9-406c-9a36-de53b31e5c2e; deposited at: Russian Academy of Sciences, Zoological Institute, St. Petersburg (ZIN); Paraguay: Alto Paraguay: Reserva Pantanal Raraguayo, Estación Biológica Los Tres Gigantes

  • Spinaraptor gerana (Gorochov, 2015) in Mendes, Sobral & Silva-Neto, 2024: 558.

Nomenclature references (2)

  • Gorochov, A.V. (2015) Systematics of the American katydids (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae). Communication 5. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 319(4), 480–503. Available at http://www.zin.ru/journals/trudyzin/doc/vol_319_4/TZ_319_4_Gorochov.pdf
  • Mendes, D.M.de M., Sobral, R. & da Silva-Neto, A.M. (2024) The Spine Raptor—a new genus of predatory katydid (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Meconematinae: Phlugidini) from the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest. Zootaxa, 5492(4), 545–562. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5492.4.4
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Descendants and synonyms

No records found.
Life zone and ecology data

Terrestrial

Gender, form, and etymology
Noun in apposition
Etymology:

This species is named in memory of Natalia Geraskina, Deputy Director of Orlovskoye Polesye National Park, a great lover of wild animals and wonderful companion in the journey to Bolivia and Paraguay in 2014 together with the author; many beautiful photographs in nature were published by N. Geraskina in the Internet under her nickname “Gerana”.

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