Scolocerca Ragge, 1980

Massa, Bruno, 2021, Some new species of Phaneroptera, Eulioptera and Scolocerca (Orthoptera Tettigoniidae: Phaneropterinae) from West Tropical Africa, Zootaxa 4948 (1), pp. 123-135 : 133

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.