Pantecphylini

Naskrecki, Piotr, 2008, Sylvan katydids (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Pseudophyllinae) of the Guinean Forests of West Africa hotspot: an overview and descriptions of new species, Zootaxa 1712, pp. 1-41 : 5

Pantecphylini

This monotypic tribe contains 17 species, distributed widely in Central and West Africa. Members of this tribe are characterized by a strongly armed, spiny pronotum, and the presence of a unique abdomino-alary stridulatory mechanism, presumably used for defense. Recently a number of new species of the genus Pantecphylus have been described from Central Africa ( Schmidt 2003, 2006a, 2006 b, 2007; Schmidt et al. 2004), but only two species have been recorded from the GFWA.