Macroscirtus brevipennis Redtenbacher, 1892

Simeu-Noutchom, Alain, Heller, Klaus-Gerhard, Affa’A, Glwadys Zang, Wandji, Alain Christel & Nzike, Marcelle Mbadjoun, 2022, Review of the genus Macroscirtus Pictet, 1888 (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) with the description of a new species, Zootaxa 5188 (2), pp. 133-144 : 135-136

Macroscirtus brevipennis Redtenbacher, 1892

Fig. 6 ; Tables 3

Type material: holotype ♀, Africa , West Tropical Africa, Sierre Leone. NMW .

Description: Body dark. Back of the head and pronotum shelled, brown or black on both sides. Tegmina scarcely exceeding abdomen, narrow, rounded at the apex, brownish, sparsely and palely brown-stained. Hind wings narrow, slightly shorter than tegmina. Testaceous front legs with a single external spine drawn above; brownishrusty hind tibia. Fore femur brown, unarmed; hind femur very thickened at the base, transversely areolate on the outside, with a raised line, shiny, well arranged in longitudinal section, paler below, and armed with 4-5 spines on each side at the apical half. Ovipositor ferruginous.

Distribution ( Fig. 6 ): Sierra Leone (type locality); Equatorial Guinea, Cabo San Juan, ( Bolivar, 1906).

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FIGURE 6. Distribution of the genus Macroscirtus in Africa