Brachytrupes vastatrix ( Afzelius & Brannius, 1804 ) Simeu-Noutchom & Heller & Nyobe & Kekeunou, 2023

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 : 385

Species Brachytrupes vastatrix ( Afzelius & Brannius, 1804) stat. nov. ( Table 4 )

Type material: unspecified, West Africa , Sierra Leone, type probably lost .

Description ( Afzelius & Brannius 1804) Body blackish-chestnut, about 50 mm long and quite broad, blackish above, brownish below the head and sides, lighter than the sea on the whole; female with more saturated color and dusky. The back of the head is compressed, thinly pubescent; frons flat and black, depressed in the middle lengthwise into an ovate-margined shape, marked transversely by three oceli with middle smaller and lower; on the sides joined by the keel of the sea; Spots on the forehead oval, occupying the outer sides of the tubercles, under the middle spot another large suborbicular chestnut; Eyes glaucous-brown; antennae hairy. Palps brown, covered with short dense hairs in some long tufts; first joints smallest obconic, the second a little larger oblong, the third largest lanceolate, the fourth somewhat less thickened, the last of the length and shape of quartz but the tip more compressed and obliquely truncated. Pronotum wider anteriorly, narrower posteriorly, tran sversely unevenly wrinkled on the back and with a ribbon including the middle furrow, thinly pubescent on the sides before the posterior edge with a transverse black furrow on both sides, otherwise all chestnut brown. Tegmina extended beyond the abdomen, forefeet were clothed with short and long hairs, the tibiae were longitudinally single furrowed at the back, the middle ones were somewhat more slenderly furrowed, marginal spines 8–9 erect; long hind black legs, hairy at the back, with 7–9 small erect spines, the apex of the back is densely ciliated anteriorly. Hind formera twice as long as tiba. Abdomen subsilky and almost furrowed. Tail of the wings bristles, a little shorter, and inclined to be tubular.