Macroscirtus brevipennis Redtenbacher, 1892
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5188.2.3 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7087514 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/E95487D1-FFA7-CD11-FF3E-F9104711FF0B |
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Macroscirtus brevipennis Redtenbacher, 1892 |
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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).
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Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien |
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