Tropicophyllum uirapuru Mendes & Rafael, 2025, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Mendes, Diego Matheus De Mello
name: Rafael, José Albertino
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Tettigoniidae
Tropicophyllum
Tropicophyllum uirapuru

description: Tropicophyllum uirapuru sp. nov.
Figures 202–206
Diagnosis. Vein MA with four main branches reaching wing margin (Fig. 203). Tegmina with five large asymmetric hyaline bands; hyaline bands without spots (Fig. 203); cell MP–CuA wide (Fig. 203). Mesobasisternum triangular, anteriorly straight; lateral lobes anterolaterally convex, laterally and posteriorly straight, forming a posterolateral blunt tip (Fig. 202E). Metabasisternum triangular, anteriorly concave; lateral lobes anterolaterally convex, laterally straight, posteriorly convex, posterolaterally forming an angle of 90° (Fig. 202E). Left stridulatory file curved (Fig. 204A).
Description. Holotype Male.
Thorax. Mesobasisternum triangular, anteriorly straight; lateral lobes anterolaterally convex, laterally and posteriorly straight, forming a posterolateral blunt tip (Fig. 202E). Metabasisternum triangular, anteriorly concave; lateral lobes anterolaterally convex, laterally straight, posteriorly convex, posterolaterally forming an angle of 90° (Fig. 202E).
Wings. Vein MA with four main branches reaching wing margin (Fig. 203). Tegmina with five large asymmetric hyaline bands; hyaline bands without spots (Fig. 203); cell MP–CuA wide (Fig. 203). Left stridulatory file curved; basal teeth and apicals smaller (Fig. 204A). Total file length of 3.1 mm, greater vein width of 0.5 mm and a total of 74 teeth. Rigth stridulatory file sinuose; teeth on basal half wider and sparser than teeth on apical half (Fig. 204B). Total file length of 2.4 mm, greater vein width of 0.3 mm and a total of 70 teeth.
Legs. All femora ventrally with several small spines (Figs. 202F–H).
Abdomen. Cercus curved inwards, with the apex not expanded (Figs. 202I–K). Apex of cercus with small triangular projection with a dark brown color (Fig. 202K). Stylus fusiform (Fig. 202I). Apex of stylus not exceeding half of cercus length, in ventral view (Fig. 202I).
Internal male genitalia. Ejaculatory vesicles reniform (Figs. 205A–D). Upper folds of ventral lobe small, triangular and posteriorly convex (Figs. 205A–B). Titillator process large and elongated (Figs. 205A–D). Lower folds of ventral lobe large, bilobate, posteriorly convex and not exceeding the dorsal lobes (Figs. 205A–B). Dorsal lobes anteriorly convex, laterally straight and posteriorly triangular (Figs. 205A–D). Dorsal folds elongated and asymmetrical (Figs. 205C–D).
Coloration. Based on photos of preserved specimen (Fig. 202). Body and tegmina yellowish green. Eyes dark brown. Dorso-lateral suture narrow and black.
Female. Unknown.
Etymology. The epithet is in apposition, uirapuru (wyra + purú) comes from the Brazilian indigenous language Tupi and is the popular name given to a group of Amazonian birds from the Troglodytidae, iconic for their complex song and therefore present in several Amazonian legends.
Distribution. Brazil: Amazonas (Fig. 206).
Type material. Holotype ♂. BRASIL, Amazonas, Coari, Rio Urucu, Igarapé Marta –3, 04°50’0.73”S – 65°02’37”W, 14–25.viii.1993, à luz mista de mercúrio, P.F. Bührnheim et alleg. (1♂ INPA). Paratypes: idem (2♂ UFAM).
Measurements (mm). Holotype (♂): TL: 20; TegL: 32,9; TegH: 10,3; WF: 3,1; PL: 5,3; PH: 4,4; FF: 4,5; FT: 6,8; MF: 6,9; MT: 8; HF: 16; HT: 15,6; Lplac: 3,3; LC: 2,9.
Paratypes (♂): TL: 33,3–30,5; TegL: 49,9–48,2; TegH: 17,3–15,8; WF: 4,3–4,1; PL: 7,1–6,5; PH: 7,8–6,7; FF: 8,6–7,8; FT: 9,2–8,9; MF: 10,4–10,2; MT: 21,1–21; HF: 22,3–21,3; HT: 22–21; Lplac: 2,6–2,4; LC: 1,3–1; LO: 4,8–3,9.
Observation of behavior. Occurrence in area of endemism of the Inambari.
description: Published as part of Mendes, Diego Matheus De Mello & Rafael, José Albertino, 2025, Review of Anapolisia Piza, 1980 and Tropicophyllum Koçak & Kemal, 2008 stat. rev. (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Phaneropterinae: Microcentrini), pp. 1-184 in Zootaxa 5564 (1) on pages 177-179, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5564.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14612164