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
Tropicophyllum modestum
(Piza, 1980)
comb. nov.
Anapolisia modesta
Piza, 1980
Anapolisia
Piza, 1980
syn. nov. of
Tropicophyllum
Koçak & Kemal, 2008
Piza compared his new genus
Anapolisia
with
Monteiroa
and
Plangia
, two African genera with superficially similar habitus. The male
holotype
is quite similar to four neotropical species described as
Rossophyllum
, a genus named by Grant (1958) after the insect curator E.S. Ross, and as a junior homonym given the uninspired new name
Tropicophyllum
by Turkish lepidopterists specializing in substitute names. We are not completely certain about including
A. modesta
into
Tropicophyllum
. Piza’s specimen, although having diaphanous tegmina, does not show the diaphanous transverse bands which are typical for that genus. But neither does
T. maculosum
from
Costa Rica
. However, in Piza’s specimen the shape and venation of the tegmina, especially the curvature of the radial vein, and the shape of the pronotum, are very similar in comparison with the other four species, of which one is also described from
Brazil
.