arizonica
Arizonica is a Latin geographic epithet used in biological nomenclature to indicate an association with the U.S. state of Arizona. In binomial names, arizonica is the species epithet and is always written in lowercase, following the genus name. The epithet itself does not describe a taxon; rather, it signals geographic origin or locality related to the species.
The term appears across various taxa, particularly in plants, and to a lesser extent in animals, where
Geographic epithets like arizonica help convey distribution information within scientific names, but they are supplementary to