Brachytrupes colosseus Saussure, 1899

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 : 384

Species Brachytrupes colosseus Saussure, 1899 stat. nov. ( Table 4 , Fig. 7 )

Brachytrypus membranaceus variety colossea Saussure, 1899: p. 601

Type material: holotype ♁, Africa , Western Indian Ocean, Madagascar. SMFD .

Description ( Saussure 1899). Body color, varying from yellow to brown; the front of the head is black-andwhite. Head large, anteriorly widest and most excavated, leathery-striated and marked with different impressions; 3 large supraocular teeth; antennae very distant from each other. Pronotum short, widened anteriorly, anterior margin sinuous, above black, with 2 pyriform red spots. Tegmina with 3 oblique veins; the first very distant from the rest, short, and sigmoidal. Only 2 teeth on the distal part of the posterior metatarsus. The internal foramen of the anterior tibiae is narrow-long. Posterior femora above brown-shaded, apex and preapical band yellow.

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FIGURE 7. Brachytrupes colosseus: (a) habitus and (b) frontal view (http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org).