Afrotapiena, Massa, 2023

Massa, Bruno, 2023, Biodiversity hotspot in the Sangha Trinational Protected Area revealed through Orthoptera Tettigoniidae, Zootaxa 5331 (1), pp. 1-67 : 16

Afrotapiena n. gen. ( Figs. 9c , 10f )

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Type species here designated: Tapiena minor Bolívar, 1906 , Mem. Soc. espan. Hist. nat. 1: 334;

type locality: Ghana, Ashanti; depository: MNCN, Madrid (♀ syntype; cf. Paris 1994) .

Description. Small-sized, green. Antennae thin. Fastigium of vertex about 1.5 times as wide as scapus of antenna; fastigium verticis meeting fastigium of frons along a horizontal line; face smooth ( Fig. 9c ); eyes round. Pronotum higher than long, with evident lateral carinae ( Fig. 10f ), flat and dotted disc, anterior margin incurved, posterior margin rounded. Both pairs of wings fully developed; tegmina rounded at tips, narrow ( Fig. 9c ). Fore coxa armed. Femora inferiorly spined. Fore tibiae with conchate tympanum on inner side and open tympanum on outer side. Three sclerotized spurs on each side of hind femora. Ovipositor curving sharply upwards, with dorsal valve denticulate, ventral valve pointed and apically denticulate.

Etymology. The name Afrotapiena means African Tapiena .

Distribution. Presently it has been recorded only from Ghana ( Bolívar 1906, Naskrecki 2008), and only the female sex is known.

Figures

FIGURE 9. Habitus in lateral view of Bongeia puncticollis Sĵstedt, 1902 (a), Itokiia silvarum Sĵstedt, 1902 (b), Tapiena (presently Afrotapiena n. gen.) minor Bolívar, 1906, syntype (c).

FIGURE 10. Lateral view of the headand pronotum of species here considered belonging to the tribe Plangiopsidini: Plangiopsis nouabalensis n. sp. (a), Plangiopsis semiconchata Karsch, 1889 (b), P. adeps Karsch, 1896 (c), Bongeia puncticollis Sĵstedt, 1902 (d), Plangiola herbacea Bolívar, 1906 (e), Afrotapiena n. gen. (previously Tapiena) minor Bolívar, 1906 (f).