Brachytrupes mauritanicus Chopard, 1952

Simeu-Noutchom, Alain, Heller, Klaus-Gerhard, Nyobe, Philene Corinne Aude Um & Kekeunou, Sevilor, 2023, Taxonomy review of the genus Brachytrupes (Orthoptera: Gryllidae) with the description of a new species and key to the species, Zootaxa 5336 (3), pp. 373-388 : 380

Species Brachytrupes mauritanicus Chopard, 1952 stat. nov. ( Table 2 , Fig. 4 )

Brachytrypes membranaceus mauritanicus Chopard. 1952: p. 465

Type material: syntypes (1 male, 1 female), Africa , West Tropical Africa, Sierra Leone, MNHN (male listed as holotype)

Description ( Chopard 1952). Body quite small, color entirely testaceous yellowish with a brown stripe along the posterior edge of the pronotum. Head large, almost alike in both sexes, yellow, with a narrow brown band between the eye spots; the tubercles bearing these ocelli are very weak in the male, nil in the female; forehead somewhat concave, with projecting edges; upper edge of the clypeus narrowly edged with brown. Pronotum rather greatly enlarged in front, the anterior edge concave, very narrowly brown, the posterior edge a little sinuate. Legs completely yellowish; reinforcement of the posterior tibiae weak, especially at the external edge; posterior metatarsus armed with 3 or 4 weak spinules on each superior edge. Mirror as wide as long, less elongated and more rounded in front; apical field veins very regular.

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FIGURE 4. Brachytrupes mauritanicus: (a) habitus and (b) frontal view https://science.mnhn.fr/institution/mnhn/collection/ eo/item/ensif7189.