Pseudogoetia, Massa, 2017

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 : 423-425

Pseudogoetia n. gen.

Figs 17A–17E

Species type of the genus: Pseudogoetia constanti n. sp., here designated.

Description. Large size, short head, wide round eyes, fastigium verticis short, of the same size of the scapus of antennae, prozona hardly narrower than metazona of pronotum; anterior margin of pronotum slightly rounded, posterior margin rounded, with evident lateral excisions. Tegmina wider than pronotum length, with the apical margins obliquely cut; hind wings longer than tegmina. Fore coxae armed. Dorsal margin of fore tibiae round (not furrowed). Tympanum of fore tibiae open on inner and on outer side. Fore femora with spines on ventral margins, ventral margins of hind femora armed. Hind tibiae furrowed, longer than the femora. Lower margin of hind genicular lobe bearing an accessory spine. Meso and metasternum rounded. Supra-anal plate of the male triangular and rounded, male cerci in-curved. Subgenital plate of the male narrow, three-keeled, with the posterior margin concave and with styli.

Remarks. This genus is vaguely similar to Goetia Karsch, 1891 ; differences are mainly on the shape of the fastigium of vertex, pronotum, and the open inner tympanum on fore tibiae. It is not easy to place Pseudogoetia into a tribe. In Table 1 there are listed the main characters of 5 genera, including this one. It should very probably belong to Phaneropterini , but one character (upper margin of fore tibia not furrowed) is not shared with other genera of this tribe, while it is found in the newly described Madagascar genus Madagascarantia ( Massa 2017a) . It is interesting to highlight that this is a rare character, found mainly in the Madagascar genera.

Etymology. Pseudo = false, Goetia = genus of Phaneropterinae .

Figures

FIGURE17. Pseudogoetiaconstanti n. gen.n. sp. A) Lateral view of the male holotype.B) Stridulatoryfile of left tegmen.C) DorSal view of male laSt abdominal SegmentS and cerci.D) Lateral view of male laSt abdominal SegmentS and cerci.E) Ventral view of the male Subgenital plate.