Brachytrupes politus Bolívar, 1890

Simeu-Noutchom, Alain, Heller, Klaus-Gerhard, Nyobe, Philene Corinne Aude Um & Kekeunou, Sevilor, 2023, Taxonomy review of the genus Brachytrupes (Orthoptera: Gryllidae) with the description of a new species and key to the species, Zootaxa 5336 (3), pp. 373-388 : 377

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5336.3.4

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8289801

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scientific name

Brachytrupes politus Bolívar, 1890
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Species Brachytrupes politus Bolívar, 1890 View in CoL ( Table 1 View TABLE 1 )

Brachytrypes politus Bolivar, 1890: p. 328 View in CoL

Type material: holotype ♀, Africa, East Tropical Africa, Tanzania, Onyanyembe , Tabora. MNCN .

Description ( Bolívar 1890; Otte et al. 1988). Resembles B. calaharicus closely, but with higher head and with a depression on forehead between lateral ocelli. Body colour dark brown; legs and venter pale brown; cheeks pale brown but with a black marking below each eye. Pronotum: disc dark brown; with a pale area in lower anterior half of lateral lobes. Forewings dark brown, extending beyond end of abdomen. Hind wings extending well beyond forewings. Front and middle legs similar to B. calaharicus . Hind legs: femora pale brown with a dark band next to knees.

MNCN

Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Orthoptera

Family

Gryllidae

SubFamily

Gryllinae

Genus

Brachytrupes

Loc

Brachytrupes politus Bolívar, 1890

Simeu-Noutchom, Alain, Heller, Klaus-Gerhard, Nyobe, Philene Corinne Aude Um & Kekeunou, Sevilor 2023
2023
Loc

Brachytrypes politus

Bolivar, I. 1890: 328
1890
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