Horatosphaga leggei (Kirby, 1909)

Massa, Bruno, 2015, Taxonomy and distribution of some katydids (OrthopteraTettigoniidae) from tropical Africa, ZooKeys 524, pp. 17-44 : 20-21

Taxon classification Animalia Orthoptera Tettigoniidae

Horatosphaga leggei (Kirby, 1909) Figs 13, 15, 25

Material examined.

Democratic Republic of Congo, Goma 3.I.1967, T. De Stefani (1♂); same data 11-12.XII.1967 (2♂); same data 21.XII.1967 (2♂); same data 25.XII.1967 (1♂); same data 29.XII.1967 (1♂); same data 31.XII.1967 (1♂); Democratic Republic of Congo, Bukavu 7.VIII.1967, T. De Stefani (1♂); same data 6.III.1969 (1♂); Democratic Republic of Congo, Mt. Kanzi (2000 m) 22.III.1970, T. De Stefani (1♂) (MRT).

Remarks.

The right tegmina of specimens listed (both males and females) (Fig. 13) have venation as depicted by Ragge (1960), who also wrote that the female has the pronotum with well-developed lateral carinae in metazona. However, the female pronotum also has a verrucose surface of disc, not cited by Ragge (1960) (Fig. 15). Horatosphaga leggei has a stridulatory file composed of 92-95 regularly placed teeth (Fig. 25).

Distribution.

According to Ragge (1960) Horatosphaga leggei is the most common species of the genus from East Africa to the Democratic Republic of Congo.