Macroscirtus brevipennis Redtenbacher, 1892

Simeu-Noutchom, Alain, Heller, Klaus-Gerhard, Affa’A, Glwadys Zang, Wandji, Alain Christel & Nzike, Marcelle Mbadjoun, 2022, Review of the genus Macroscirtus Pictet, 1888 (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) with the description of a new species, Zootaxa 5188 (2), pp. 133-144 : 135-136

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5188.2.3

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:A4DEEDB4-87CE-4B33-81A9-721D9D9AEC22

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7087514

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/E95487D1-FFA7-CD11-FF3E-F9104711FF0B

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scientific name

Macroscirtus brevipennis Redtenbacher, 1892
status

 

Macroscirtus brevipennis Redtenbacher, 1892 View in CoL

Fig. 6 View FIGURE 6 ; Tables 3 View TABLE 3

Type material: holotype ♀, Africa , West Tropical Africa, Sierre Leone. NMW .

Description: Body dark. Back of the head and pronotum shelled, brown or black on both sides. Tegmina scarcely exceeding abdomen, narrow, rounded at the apex, brownish, sparsely and palely brown-stained. Hind wings narrow, slightly shorter than tegmina. Testaceous front legs with a single external spine drawn above; brownishrusty hind tibia. Fore femur brown, unarmed; hind femur very thickened at the base, transversely areolate on the outside, with a raised line, shiny, well arranged in longitudinal section, paler below, and armed with 4-5 spines on each side at the apical half. Ovipositor ferruginous.

Distribution ( Fig. 6 View FIGURE 6 ): Sierra Leone (type locality); Equatorial Guinea, Cabo San Juan, ( Bolivar, 1906).

NMW

Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Orthoptera

Family

Tettigoniidae

SubFamily

Mecopodinae

Genus

Macroscirtus

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