Afroagraecia Ingrisch & Hemp, 2013

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 : 305

Genus Afroagraecia Ingrisch & Hemp, 2013

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The genus Afroagraecia was erected on Agraecia sansibara (Redtenbacher, 1891) restricted to the island of Zanzibar. It is characterized by a fastigium verticis that is conial and strongly laterally compressed and shorter than the scapus. The scapus is without a spine. The prosternum is bispinose, and the meso- and metasternum are unarmed. The pronotum is rounded, its surface shiny with shallow dots; the anterior margin is rounded while the posterior margin is truncate and slightly elevated in the male; the lateral lobes have a straight ventral margin that is little descending posteriorly; the auditory swelling is small and faint. The tegmina and wings are nearly fully developed or shortened. The fore femora wear on both ventral margins few spines while mid and hind femora have only on externo-ventral margin few spines. The last abdominal tergite of the males is divided into two broad and posteriorly evenly rounded lobes. The male cerci are very stout and elongated, bi- to trispinose with sclerotized tips. On the inner sides of the male cerci one or two processes are present. The titillators consist of two pairs of sclerites. The central pair is simple, sclerotized, curved and near the apex laterally connected to an elongate semistiffened projection with granular surface often pointing in the same direction as the central titillators. The female ovipositor is long and slender and only slightly up-curved.

Two new species are present occurring along the Kenyan and Tanzania Coast and East Usambara Mountains which are described here.