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
.