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Barbucca Roberts 1989 barba (L.), beard or barbel; bucca (L.), cheek, referring to tuberculate cheek patch on B. diabolica males

Barbucca diabolica Roberts 1989 Latin for devilish, from diabolikós (Gr. διαβολικός), referring to its glowing red eyes and “spiked tail” (i.e., large, sharp-pointed tubercles on caudal peduncle of both males and females; Tyson R. Roberts, pers. comm.)

Barbucca elongata Vasil’eva & Vasil’ev 2013 Latin for prolonged, referring to its more elongate body compared with B. diabolica