ROQUETTEA MELLO- LEITÃO, 1931

Roquettea Mello-Leitão, 1931: 117 .

Type-species by original designation: Roquettea singularis Mello-Leitão, 1931 .

Tetracyphus Sørensen in Henriksen, 1932: 312 [junior homonym of Tetracyphus Chevrolat, 1881 (Coleoptera); junior subjective synonym of Roquettea Mello-Leitão, 1931 by Mello-Leitão (1933)]. Typespecies by monotypy: Tetracyphus mirabilis Sørensen, 1932 .

Etymology: The genus name honours the prominent Brazilian anthropologist Edgar Roquette-Pinto (1884–1954), who was a colleague of Mello-Leitão in the Museu Nacional and eventually director of that institution. Gender feminine.

Diagnosis: See Medrano & Kury (2018).

Included species: Roquettea andina (Roewer, 1947) comb. nov., R. bubalina Medrano & Kury, 2018, R. carajas Kury & Ferreira 2012, R. decioi Kury 2013, R. jalapensis Ferreira & Kury, 2010, R. peba Kury & Ferreira 2012, R. scrotalis Ferreira & Kury, 2010, R. singularis Mello-Leitão, 1931, R. taurina Ferreira & Kury, 2010 and R. troguloides Medrano & Kury, 2018 .