Griffinipteryx mukonja (Griffini, 1908)

Massa, Bruno, 2016, The identity of the tropical African Polichnemukonja Griffini, 1908 (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae, Phaneropterinae), ZooKeys 621, pp. 37-44 : 40-41

Taxon classification Animalia Orthoptera Tettigoniidae

Griffinipteryx mukonja (Griffini, 1908)

Depository of the type.

Cameroon, Mukonje Farm (♀ holotype) (RBINS, Brussels) (photograph examined by courtesy of Jerome Constant).

Material examined.

Cameroon, Johann-Albrechtshöhe [near Lake Barombi, ca. 80 km from Mukonje], Rhode (2♀) (coll. Brunner von Wattenwyl, NMW, Vienna).

General habitus and colour.

Yellow-brownish, a black stripe from behind the eye on the head through the lateral lobes of the pronotum and gradually broadening along the tegmina. Abdomen yellow with some brown spots; legs yellow with many black dots; tympanum with a black anterior margin; fore and mid tarsi black, hind tarsi yellow with a black base.

Description.

Female. Fastigium of vertex sulcate above; face smooth without fronto-genal carinae, higher than wide. Pronotum without lateral carinae, surface shiny, with a well-developed humeral excision on the lateral lobes. Anterior margin of pronotum straight, posterior margin gently rounded, pronotum lobes rounded on posterior margins. Fore coxae armed with a fine spine; a very small spine is present at the base of the ventral inner margin of fore and of ventral outer margin of the mid femora, hind femora unarmed; fore tibiae with 3 black spines on ventral inner margin, 3 spines + 1 apical spur on ventral outer margin, 1 spine dorsal on fore tibia above tympanum + 1 apical spur; mid tibiae with 4-5 black spines on ventral inner margin + 1 apical spur, 6 black spines ventral on outer margin + 1 apical spur, 1 dorsal inner black spine + 1 apical spur; hind tibiae with 9-10 black spines ventral on both margins + 2 apical spurs on each side; dorsal margins of hind tibiae with many black and yellow black tipped spines + 1 apical spur on each side. Abdomen: styli pointed, ovipositor very short with crenulated dorsal apex. Subgenital plate triangular and short, as long as wide, apically rounded.

Male: unknown.

Measurements.

See Table 1.