Microcentrum linki (Piza, 1971)

Chamorro-Rengifo, Juliana & Braun, Holger, 2010, 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, Zootaxa 2635, pp. 41-66 : 57

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 .