Taxon classification Animalia Orthoptera Phaneropteridae

Genus Melidia Stal, 1876 Figs 20-31

Remarks .

The genus Melidia Stål, 1876 is characterized by the fastigium of the vertex, which is prominently raised in the region of the lateral ocelli. It looks like the genus Phaneroptera, but differs from this mainly in the shape of the head, the male cerci and the sub-genital plate, and broader fore wings. It has a well-developed spine on the fore coxae and males have the stridulatory region of the left tegmina brown or conspicuously marked with brown (Ragge 1980).