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Brachytrupes colosseus Saussure 1899, stat. nov.

  • 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.

Notes

Published as part of Simeu-Noutchom, Alain, Heller, Klaus-Gerhard, Nyobe, Philene Corinne Aude Um & Kekeunou, Sevilor, 2023, Taxonomy review of the genus Brachytrupes (Orthoptera: Gryllidae) with the description of a new species and key to the species, pp. 373-388 in Zootaxa 5336 (3) on page 384, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5336.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/8281577

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Additional details

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.