The Tettigoniidae (Orthoptera) described by Salvador de Toledo Piza Jr. and deposited in the collection of the University of São Paulo, Escola Superior de Agricultura " Luiz de Queiroz ", Brazil
Author
Chamorro-Rengifo, Juliana
Author
Braun, Holger
text
Zootaxa
2010
2635
41
66
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.198409
4eb51d5a-162f-4e84-89b2-dca495a07b9f
1175-5326
198409
Uchuca ferreirai
(Piza, 1976)
comb. nov.
Amiltonia ferreirai
Piza, 1976
Amiltonia
Piza, 1976
syn. nov.
of
Uchuca
Giglio-Tos, 1898
This species was originally identified as a member of the
Pseudophyllinae
, but obviously it belongs to the
Agraeciini
, inclusively to the already described genus
Uchuca
. The identification was made using diagnostic characters summarized and illustrated by Montealegre-Z. &
Morris (2003)
. The only other long-winged species in this genus,
U. macroptera
Montealegre-Z. & Morris from
Colombia
, has significantly different male cerci.