Mimoscudderia picta Carl, 1914

Massa, Bruno, 2017, New genera, species and records of Afrotropical Phaneropterinae (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae) preserved at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Bruxelles, Zootaxa 4358 (3), pp. 401-429 : 419

Mimoscudderia picta Carl, 1914

Figs 15A, 15C, 15D, 15G, 15I

Carl, 1914. Rev. SuiSSe Zool., 22 (6): 160.

Material examined. Madagascar, Marantsetra (1♂) ; Madagascar, Manakambahiny forest II.1991, A. Pauly (1♀) ( RBINS) .

Measurements (after Carl 1914, in parenthesys). Male. Body length: 23.5 (20.0); length of pronotum: 5.1 (5.5); height of pronotum 5.0; length of tegmina: 40.2 (41.0); width of tegmina: 7.1 (7.0); length of hind femora: 28.2 (27.0); length of hind tibiae: 32.0. Female. Body length: 18.4 (20.0); length of pronotum: 5.3 (5.0); height of pronotum 5.7; length of tegmina: 41.4 (44.0); width of tegmina: 7.0 (8.0); length of hind femora: 28.6 (30.0); length of hind tibiae: 32.6; ovipositor: 9.3 (9.0).

Remarks. Since its description ( Carl 1914) no data have been reported about this species. The following are the sexual characters, only superficially listed by Carl (1914). The subgenital plate of the male is long and upcurved, cerci are as long as the subgenital plate, incurved with pointed tip ( Figs 15A, 15C, 15D ). The stridulatory file is curved and consists of ca. 80 teeth, central higher than distal ones, a bulge in proximal part ( Fig. 15G ). The ovipositor of the female is gently up-curved, with superior margin and the tip of inferior margin toothed ( Fig. 15I ).

Figures

FIGURE 15. Two MadagaScar SpecieS of the genuS Mimoscudderia. A) Lateral view of laSt abdominal SegmentS of Mimoscudderia picta Carl, 1914. B) Lateral view of laSt abdominal SegmentS of Mimoscudderia paulyi n. sp. holotype. C) DorSal view of male cerci and Subgenital plate of M. picta. D) Ventral view of male cerci and Subgenital plate of M. picta. E) DorSal view of male proceSSuS and Subgenital plate of M. paulyi n. sp. F) Ventral view of male proceSSuS and Subgenital plate of M. paulyi n. sp. G) Stridulatory file of left tegmen of M. picta. H) Stridulatory file of left tegmen of M. paulyi n. sp. I) Lateral view of the ovipoSitor of M.picta.