Phlugidia

Hemp, Claudia, 2013, New Phlugidia species (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Meconematinae, Phlugidini) from the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania, Africa, Zootaxa 3670 (3), pp. 378-384 : 382

Key to male Phlugidia species

1 Male cerci differentiated into two branches near their posterior ends; 10th tergite posteriorly enlarged and medially with large vshaped notch......................................................................................... 2

1´Male cerci not divided into two branches at their posterior ends; 10th tergite posteriorly not enlarged, v-shaped notch situated between divided margins of 10th abdominal tergite............................................................ 3

2 Posterior ends of male cerci of about same length, stout and short; 9th tergite with median elevated dent; East Usambara Mountains................................................................................ P. usambarica Hemp

2´Posterior ends of male cerci divided into outer blunt branch and inner elongated and expanded branch; lowland forest central Tanzania, Morogoro region.............................................................. P. planicercus n. sp.

3 V-shaped notch of 10th tergite partly covered by posterior margin of 9th tergite; posterior margin of 10th tergite forming notch broadly tongue-like; inner depressions at base of cerci small; Nguru Mountains.................... P. o b t u s ic e rc u s n. sp.

3´V-shaped notch of 10th tergite not covered by posterior margin of 9th abdominal tergite but merely formed by median division of 10th tergite; posterior part of notch narrow, not broadly tongue-like as in P. obtusicercus ; inner depressions at base of cerci large; Kenyan coast...................................................................... P. africana Kevan