Tylopsis bilineolata Karsch, 1893

(Fig. 5)

MADAGASCAR: Ranomafana, rain forest, Soarana trail, 920 m a. s. l., - 21.256813° S, 47.422720° E ; 25 iii 2015, leg. Anton Krištín, CH 8596, male.

From Madagascar, two species of the genus Tylopsis are known: T. bilineolata Karsch, 1893 (see Ragge 1964) and T. irregularis Karsch, 1893 (see Massa 2017c). From the shape of the cerci (Fig. 5A) and the pronotum (Fig. 5B), our specimen belongs to T. bilineolata, and here to the larger and more common morph (length of hind femur 25 mm; see Ragge 1964). Its stridulatory file (Fig. 5C) is quite similar to that of T. lilifolia (Fabricius) (compare Heller 1988, fig. 110).

Habitat. The specimen was found in a bush within tall tropical rainforest with many palm species and several tree fern species.