Symmetroraggea, Massa, Bruno, 2015

Massa, Bruno, 2015, New genera, species and records of Phaneropterinae (Orthoptera, Phaneropteridae) from sub-Saharan Africa, ZooKeys 472, pp. 77-102 : 81

Taxon classification Animalia Orthoptera Phaneropteridae

Genus Symmetroraggea gen. n.

Type-species.

Symmetropleura dirempta Karsch, 1889, here designated.

Among the species described within the genus Symmetropleura Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878, Karsch (1889) included also Symmetropleura dirempta from Madagascar, that has the characters reported below, not corresponding to those of the genus Symmetropleura (see above the translation of the description of the type-species Symmetropleura laevicauda , in particular the round margin of upper tibiae and the fronto-genal carinae present in Symmetroraggea gen. n.).

Etymology.

The genus is dedicated to David R. Ragge, authority on African Phaneropteridae taxonomy, who also pointed out the differences of African Symmetropleura when compared to American species ( Ragge 1968b, 1980).