Macroscirtus bicolor Bolívar, 1893

Simeu-Noutchom, Alain, Heller, Klaus-Gerhard, Affa’A, Glwadys Zang, Wandji, Alain Christel & Nzike, Marcelle Mbadjoun, 2022, Review of the genus Macroscirtus Pictet, 1888 (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) with the description of a new species, Zootaxa 5188 (2), pp. 133-144 : 135

Species Macroscirtus bicolor Bolívar, 1893

Fig. 6 ; Table 3

Synonym Macroscyrtus bicolor Bolívar, 1893 ( Bolívar, 1893)

Type material: syntype ♀, Africa, West Tropical Africa , Ivory Coast. Museum Madrid (Paris & Hemp, in press)

Description: Pitch brown, with the vertex and back of the pronotum dirty yellow. Pronotum punctate, rounded on the sides, with the lateral carinae somewhat pronounced on the metazone, the latter having more than half the length of the prozone; lateral lobes shiny black, pitted, but with small smooth spaces, pronotal disc bright yellowish. Tegmina acuminate, less pointed than in Macroscirtus acutipennis , but more rounded than in Macroscirtus kanguroo Pictet. Hind wings absent or extremely small. Anterior tibiae showing above on the external edge, two small spines; below, they have six spines on each side, or even seven on the outer side; intermediate ones are armed above with two spines on the external side and three internally. Forelegs yellowish. The abdomen is smooth and somewhat keeled in the median line above; this carina, extending posteriorly, forms a small tooth on each segment. Ovipositor very long, smooth and slightly curved upwards at the end.

Distribution ( Fig. 6 ): Ivory Coast, Assinie-Mafia.

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FIGURE 6. Distribution of the genus Macroscirtus in Africa