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 47401 10.5281/zenodo.198409 4eb51d5a-162f-4e84-89b2-dca495a07b9f 1175-5326 198409 Microcentrum linki (Piza, 1971) comb. nov. Linkia linki Piza, 1971 Linkia Piza, 1967 syn. nov. of Microcentrum Scudder, 1862 Carnavalia Koçak & Kemal, 2008 syn. nov. of Microcentrum Scudder, 1862 Piza compared his new genus to Symmachis Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878, a genus with three species from Australia . However, the female holotype of Linkia linki from southern Brazil presents characters that are diagnostic for the genus Microcentrum . This makes Linkia , a preoccupied name, along with the curious substitute name Carnavalia (with reference to the famous carnival of M. linki ’s home country), synonyms of Microcentrum .