Brachytrupes colosseus Saussure 1899, stat. nov.
Authors/Creators
- 1. Zoology Laboratory, Department of Animal Biology and Physiology, Faculty of Science, University of Yaounde 1, Cameroon Bahnhof Triesdorf 8, 91732 Merkendorf, Germany
- 2. Zoology Laboratory, Department of Animal Biology and Physiology, Faculty of Science, University of Yaounde 1, Cameroon Bahnhof Triesdorf 8, 91732 Merkendorf, Germany & phicoraude @ yahoo. fr; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 7226 - 7877
- 3. Zoology Laboratory, Department of Animal Biology and Physiology, Faculty of Science, University of Yaounde 1, Cameroon Bahnhof Triesdorf 8, 91732 Merkendorf, Germany & skekeunou @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 9058 - 100 X
Description
Species Brachytrupes colosseus Saussure, 1899 stat. nov. (Table 4, Fig. 7)
Brachytrypus membranaceus variety colossea Saussure, 1899: p. 601
Type material: holotype ♁, Africa, Western Indian Ocean, Madagascar. SMFD.
Description (Saussure 1899). Body color, varying from yellow to brown; the front of the head is black-andwhite. Head large, anteriorly widest and most excavated, leathery-striated and marked with different impressions; 3 large supraocular teeth; antennae very distant from each other. Pronotum short, widened anteriorly, anterior margin sinuous, above black, with 2 pyriform red spots. Tegmina with 3 oblique veins; the first very distant from the rest, short, and sigmoidal. Only 2 teeth on the distal part of the posterior metatarsus. The internal foramen of the anterior tibiae is narrow-long. Posterior femora above brown-shaded, apex and preapical band yellow.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- SMFD
- Scientific name authorship
- Saussure
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Orthoptera
- Family
- Gryllidae
- Genus
- Brachytrupes
- Species
- colosseus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic status
- stat. nov.
- Type status
- holotype
References
- Saussure, H. (1899) Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Reise in Madagaskar und Ostafrika in den Jahren 1889 - 95 von Dr. A. Voeltzkow. Orthoptera. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft, 21, 569 - 664.