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.