Melidia claudiae Massa, 2015

Massa, Bruno, 2017, New genera, species and records of Afrotropical Phaneropterinae (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae) preserved at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Bruxelles, Zootaxa 4358 (3), pp. 401-429 : 402

Melidia claudiae Massa, 2015

Figs 1A–1C

MaSSa, 2015. ZookeyS, 472: 87.

Material examined. Democratic Republic of Congo, Katofio V.1939, H.J. Brédo (5♂, 1♀) ( RBINS).

Measurements. Males. Body length: 13.5–15.0; length of pronotum: 3.4–3.6; height of pronotum: 3.0–3.2; length hind femur: 17.0–18.6; length of hind tibia: 18.5–21.3; length of tegmina: 23.9–25.5; width of tegmina: 4.7– 5.3. Female. Body length: 11.8; length of pronotum: 3.0; height of pronotum: 2.4; length hind femur: 17.0; length of hind tibia: 19.0; length of tegmina: 19.9; width of tegmina: 3.5.

Remarks. The description of this species was based on 2 males ( Massa 2015); the series listed above contains also one female, other than 5 males. M. claudiae is characterized by narrower tegmina than congeneric species (see Massa 2015 and measurements). The stridulatory area is presented in Fig. 1A , the stridulatory file (previously undescribed) consists of 18 teeth, of which 5 proximal larger and 13 distal smaller ( Fig. 1B ).

Characters of the female. Similar as male. Colour. Yellow-green. The ovipositor is gently up-curved and has two lateral bulges at its base, the subgenital plate is short and pointed ( Fig. 1C ).

Figures

FIGURE1. Melidia claudiae MaSSa,2015.A) Stridulatory area of left and right tegminaof male.B) Stridulatory fileunder the left tegmen of male. C) FemaleovipoSitor.