Dithela Karsch, 1890

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

Genus Dithela Karsch, 1890

Remarks. The genus Dithela is characterized by small dorsolateral tubercle on each side of the pronotum, fore coxae without spine, fore femora armed, fore and mid tibiae without dorsal spurs, radial area with series of callosities on principal cross-veins, hind margin of male left tegmen markedly excavate just beyond stridulatory region, subgenital plate without styli. The species below described, Dithela longicaudata n. sp., does not show the callosities on the tegmina, has 1 spur on dorsal fore tibiae, 2 spurs on dorsal mid tibiae, and has tegmina clearly shorter than hind wings, different from the two known species of the genus, D. rectiloba Karsch, 1890 and D. acuticercus Sjöstedt, 1912 . However, it is tentatively ascribed to the genus Dithela , based on the other characters.