Tropicophyllum gurupi 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 gurupi

description: Tropicophyllum gurupi sp. nov.
Figures 193–196
Diagnosis. Vein MA with four main branches reaching wing margin (Fig. 194). Tegmina with five large asymmetric hyaline bands; hyaline bands without spots; cell MP–CuA narrow (Fig. 194). Mesobasisternum triangular, anteriorly concave; lateral lobes anterolaterally convex, laterally straight, posteriorly convex, forming a posterolateral blunt tip (Fig. 193E). Metabasisternum triangular, anteriorly concave; lateral lobes anterolaterally convex, laterally straight, posteriorly convex, posterolaterally forming an angle of 90° (Fig. 193E).
Description. Holotype Male.
Thorax. Mesobasisternum triangular, anteriorly concave; lateral lobes anterolaterally convex, laterally straight, posteriorly convex, forming a posterolateral blunt tip (Fig. 193E). Metabasisternum triangular, anteriorly concave; lateral lobes anterolaterally convex, laterally straight, posteriorly convex, posterolaterally forming an angle of 90° (Fig. 193E).
Wings. Vein MA with four main branches reaching wing margin (Fig. 194). Tegmina with five large asymmetric hyaline bands; hyaline bands without spots; cell MP-CuA narrow (Fig. 194). Left stridulatory file slightly curved; basal and apical teeth smaller (Fig. 195A). Total file length of 2.7 mm, greater vein width of 0.4 mm and a total of 54 teeth. Rigth stridulatory file damaged with total of 50 teeth (Fig. 195B).
Legs. All femora ventrally with several small spines (Figs. 193F–H).
Abdomen. Cercus curved inwards, with the apex not expanded (Figs. 193I–K). Apex of cercus with small curved convex projection with a dark brown color (Fig. 193K). Stylus fusiform (Fig. 193I). Apex of stylus exceeding half of cercus length, in ventral view (Fig. 193I).
Internal male genitalia. Not examined.
Coloration. Based on photos of preserved specimen (Fig. 193). Body and tegmina yellowish green. Eyes light brown. Dorso-lateral suture large and black.
Female: Unknown.
Etymology. The epithet is in apposition, gurupi comes from the Brazilian indigenous language Tupi and means “pure diamond”, in reference to the typical locality of this species, the Gurupi Biological Reserve.
Distribution. Brazil: Maranhão (Fig. 196).
Type material. Holotype ♂. BRASIL, Maranhão, Bom Jardim, REBIO – Reserva Biológica Gurupi, armadilha luminosa base / 02–11.ix.2010, F. Limeira-de-Oliveira, J.C. Silva, J.A. Silva & M.M. Abreu leg. (CZMA).
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.
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 168-171, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5564.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14612164