Scolocerca Ragge 1980

Genus Scolocerca Ragge, 1980

The genus Scolocerca was described by Ragge (1980) with these main characters: fastigium of vertex about as broad as first antennal segment, a median projection from the ninth abdominal tergite, tegmina slightly shiny, fairly translucent in anterior part, becoming opaque in posterior part, Sc and R veins separate from base, more or less equidistant from each other for most of their length, styli absent. Among African Phaneropterinae with open tympana on fore tibiae, a median projection from the ninth abdominal tergite is found only in the genus Bueacola Sj ̂stedt, 1912, known only from the holotype male from Buea (Cameroon); it is quite different in the vertex (narrower than the first antennal segment), pronotum (with fairly distinct lateral carinae), wing venation, and fore coxae unarmed. Ragge (1980) described one species, Scolocerca fusciala, from Ghana, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Côte d’Ivoire. Here a second species is described from Côte d’Ivoire.