Review of the genus Macroscirtus Pictet, 1888 (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) with the description of a new species

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SIMEU-NOUTCHOM ALAINORCID,HELLER KLAUS-GERHARDORCID,AFFA’A GLWADYS ZANGORCID,WANDJI ALAIN CHRISTELORCID,NZIKE MARCELLE MBADJOUNORCID

Abstract

The genus Macroscirtus belongs to the subfamily Mecopodinae with five recognized species distributed in central-west tropical Africa. All species are known from very few localities. The species are reviewed and, in addition, a new species from Cameroon is described. Macroscirtus kekeunoui sp. nov. is characterized by the tegmina not reaching the penultimate abdominal segment; hind femura with mottled brown external face, ventral and internal face completely pale yellow; male subgenital plate elongated horizontally, indentation edge straight. Species descriptions of the genus are documented and a key to the species is also provided.  

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Magnolia Press

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Animal Science and Zoology,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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