Tropicophyllum mapinguari 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 mapinguari

description: Tropicophyllum mapinguari sp. nov.
Figures 197–201
Diagnosis. Vein MA with four main branches reaching wing margin (Fig. 198). Tegmina with five large asymmetric hyaline bands; hyaline bands with small marks thin and dark, some marks angulate (Figs. 198, 200B); cell MPCuA wide (Fig. 198). Mesobasisternum triangular, anteriorly straight; lateral lobes anterolaterally convex, laterally straight, posteriorly slightly concave, forming a posterolateral acuminate tip (Fig. 197E). Metabasisternum diamond-shaped, anteriorly concave; lateral lobes anterolaterally convex, laterally straight, posteriorly convex, posterolaterally forming an angle of 90° (Fig. 197E).
Description. Holotype Male.
Thorax. Mesobasisternum triangular, anteriorly straight; lateral lobes anterolaterally convex, laterally straight, posteriorly slightly concave, forming a posterolateral acuminate tip (Fig. 197E). Metabasisternum diamond-shaped, anteriorly concave; lateral lobes anterolaterally convex, laterally straight, posteriorly convex, posterolaterally forming an angle of 90° (Fig. 197E).
Wings. Vein MA with four main branches reaching wing margin (Fig. 198). Tegmina with five large asymmetric hyaline bands; hyaline bands with small marks thin and dark, some marks angulate (Figs. 198, 200B); cell MP-CuA wide (Fig. 198). Left stridulatory file slightly sinuose; teeth on basal half wider and sparser than teeth on apical half (Fig. 199A). Total file length of 2.8 mm, greater vein width of 0.5 mm and a total of 75 teeth. Rigth stridulatory file sinuose; medium teeth larger and close together (Fig. 199B). Total file length of 1.9 mm, greater vein width of 0.4 mm and a total of 72 teeth.
Legs. All femora ventrally with several small spines (Figs. 197F–H).
Abdomen. Cercus curved inwards, with the apex not expanded (Figs. 197I–K). Apex of cercus with small curved convex projection with a dark brown color (Fig. 197K). Stylus fusiform (Fig. 197I). Apex of stylus not exceeding half of cercus length, in ventral view (Fig. 197I).
Internal male genitalia. Not examined.
Coloration. Described based on photos of live specimens (Fig. 200). General color of body and tegmina dark green. Eyes dark green with white spots. Gena and lateral lobe of pronotum with large bluish white spot. Dorso-lateral suture slender and black. Mesothorax and metathorax laterally with a wide bluish white band on each. Metepimeron with beige large spot. Tegmina slightly hyaline, with dark green coloring; hyaline bands with whitish branches; small marks, thin and dark on hialine areas, some marks angulate. Abdominal segments laterally with bluish white bands and small white spots. Fore femur, fore tibia, mid femur and mid tibia dark green with two white bands and several small white spots. Hind femur and hind tibia dark green with three white bands and several small white spots.
Female: Unknown.
Etymology. The epithet is in apposition, mapinguari is an indigenous folk tale about a mythological creature living in the Amazonian forest of Brazil and Bolivia.
Distribution. Brazil: Acre (Fig. 201).
Type material. Holotype ♂. BRASIL, Acre, Bujari, Floresta Estadual Antimary, 09°20’01”S / 68°19’17”W, 25–27.viii.2016, armadilha luminosa, D.M.M. Mendes, F.F. Xavier F°, A.A. Agudelo & J.A.Rafael leg. (INPA). Paratype: Idem (1♂ INPA and 1♂ MZSP).
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 171-175, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5564.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14612164