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Macroscirtus brevipennis Redtenbacher 1892

Creators

  • 1. Zoology Laboratory, Faculty of Science, University of Yaounde 1, Cameroon
  • 2. Bahnhof Triesdorf 8, 91732 Merkendorf, Germany
  • 3. Zoology Laboratory, Faculty of Science, University of Yaounde 1, Cameroon & gzangaffaa @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 8338 - 0576
  • 4. Zoology Laboratory, Faculty of Science, University of Yaounde 1, Cameroon & wandjichristel @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4394 - 9502
  • 5. Zoology Laboratory, Faculty of Science, University of Yaounde 1, Cameroon & marcellenzike @ yahoo. fr; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 5327 - 1638

Description

Macroscirtus brevipennis Redtenbacher, 1892

Fig. 6; Tables 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): Sierra Leone (type locality); Equatorial Guinea, Cabo San Juan, (Bolivar, 1906).

Notes

Published as part of Simeu-Noutchom, Alain, Heller, Klaus-Gerhard, Affa'A, Glwadys Zang, Wandji, Alain Christel & Nzike, Marcelle Mbadjoun, 2022, Review of the genus Macroscirtus Pictet, 1888 (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) with the description of a new species, pp. 133-144 in Zootaxa 5188 (2) on pages 135-136, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5188.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/7087512

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Additional details

Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/E95487D1FFA7CD11FF3EF9104711FF0B

Cites
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.7087532 (DOI)
Dataset: http://table.plazi.org/id/3582664FFFACCD1BFF31FCD84312FC2B (URL)
Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5188.2.3 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/7087512 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/156DFFA9FFA5CD12FFA9FF8D425DFFBA (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/A4DEEDB4-87CE-4B33-81A9-721D9D9AEC22 (URL)
Is source of
https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/E95487D1FFA7CD11FF3EF9104711FF0B (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/200897933 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/147465/taxon/E95487D1FFA7CD11FF3EF9104711FF0B.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Collection code
NMW
Family
Tettigoniidae
Genus
Macroscirtus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Orthoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Redtenbacher
Species
brevipennis
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Macroscirtus brevipennis Redtenbacher, 1892 sec. Simeu-Noutchom, Heller, Affa'A, Wandji & Nzike, 2022

References

  • Redtenbacher, J. (1892) Monographische Uebersicht der Mecopodiden. Vol. 42. Verhandlungen Der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft In Wien, pp. 183 - 224.
  • Bolivar, I. (1906) Fasgonuridos de la Guinea espanola. Memorias de La Real Sociedad Espanola de Historia Natural, 1, 327 - 377.