Cymatomerella Beier

Hemp, Claudia, 2013, Annotated list of Tettigoniidae (Orthoptera) from the East Usambara Mountains Tanzania and new Tettigoniidae species from East Africa, Zootaxa 3737 (4), pp. 301-350 : 341

Genus Cymatomerella Beier

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The genus Cymatomerella at present contains three species and is restricted to eastern Africa. It is distinguished from the very similar species of the genus Cymatomera by the venation of the tegmina. In Cymatomera R and Sc are contiguous, while in Cymatomerella both veins are running in parallel for most of their length but are clearly separated from each other, connected by numerous short side veins.

Cymatomerella are medium sized, brownish coloured pseudophyllids which resemble bark or lichens on trees. The body has a pattern of dark and lighter patches. The head as seen from above is roundish. The fastigium verticis is longer than the margins of the scapi and sulcate. The scapus is armed with a blunt process. The pronotum is flat on its disk, slightly raised in the metazona and its surface is almost smooth. Lateral on the pronotal disk there are two or several tubercles. The lateral edges of the posterior margin of the pronotum are uplifted with a round posterior margin. The lateral lobes of the pronotum are shallow and almost double as long as deep. Cymatomerella are fully alate species. The tegmina are rugose, Sc and R are well separated along the whole course and connected by short veins. The crossveins of the alae are brown. The fore femora are somewhat expanded, the dorsal margin with a series of flanges. The abdomen shows a pattern of dark and lighter stripes. The supra-anal plate is longer than wide and the anterior margin is broadly rounded. The male subgenital plate is stick-like elongated distally, with small and short styli. The female subgenital plate is distally narrowing, the posterior margin deeply incised. The ovipositor is very stout at its distal end and moderately up-curved.