Pantecphylini

Naskrecki, Piotr, 2008, Sylvan katydids (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Pseudophyllinae) of the Guinean Forests of West Africa hotspot: an overview and descriptions of new species, Zootaxa 1712, pp. 1-41 : 5

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.180953
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6230761
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scientific name	Pantecphylini
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This monotypic tribe contains 17 species, distributed widely in Central and West Africa. Members of this tribe are characterized by a strongly armed, spiny pronotum, and the presence of a unique abdomino-alary stridulatory mechanism, presumably used for defense. Recently a number of new species of the genus Pantecphylus have been described from Central Africa ( Schmidt 2003, 2006a, 2006b, 2007; Schmidt et al.2004), but only two species have been recorded from the GFWA.