Orthoptera Tettigoniidae (Conocephalinae, Hexacentrinae, Phaneropterinae Mecopodinae, Hetrodinae) from some protected areas of Central African Republic Author Massa, Bruno Department of Agriculture, Food and Forest Sciences, University of Palermo, Viale Scienze Bd 5 A, 90128 Palermo, Italy (retired) bruno. massa @ unipa. it; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2127 - 0715 Author Annoyer, Philippe Association Insectes du Monde, Sabine, 09230 Sainte Croix Volvestre, France. pannoyer @ hotmail. com Author Perez, Cyrille Author Danflous, Samuel 3, chemin du Tarda, 31190 Mauressac France. samuel. danflous @ espaces-naturels. fr Author Duvot, Guilhem 24, avenue Lucien Servanty 31700 Blagnac, France. guilhem. duvot @ gmail. com text Zootaxa 2020 2020-05-26 4780 3 401 447 journal article 21855 10.11646/zootaxa.4780.3.1 108a5b4b-23db-4b34-93a3-7effb973414e 1175-5326 3855195 9066F7B3-7289-4C44-B576-E57528F909FB Paraeurycorypha ocellata Massa et Annoyer , new sp. Figs. 27–35 Material examined . CAR . Dzanga-Sangha SR , 2.VI.1998 , Bayanga-Lidjombo pk15, P. Annoyer ( 1♂ holo- type ) ( PAPC ) . Diagnosis . Paraeurycorypha ocellata n. sp. is characterized by eye elongated as in Eurycorypha . Pronotum dorsal margins are rounded, tympanum of fore tibia is open, fore femora are laterally compressed, mirror of right tegmen is present, styli are present. Description . Male ( Fig. 27 ). General habitus and colour . Tegmina yellowish with scattered large blackish spots, some surrounding a small yellow spot, like eyespots ( Fig. 27 ). Abdomen yellow, legs yellow and black ( Figs. 28–31 ). Head . Fastigium of vertex not contiguous with fastigium of frons, wider than first antennal segment. Eyes elliptical, prominent, face smooth ( Fig. 30 ). Thorax . Pronotum as long as high, with rounded margins, surface shiny with a well-developed humeral excision on the lateral lobes ( Figs. 30, 32 ). Anterior margin of pronotum incurved, posterior margin rounded, pronotum lobes widely rounded. Tegmina with a net of veinlets; anterior margin of tegmina rounded. Stridulatory area marked ( Fig. 32 ), right tegmina with mirror ( Fig. 32 ), stridulatory file short, ca. 0.5 mm long, consisting of about 50 arched teeth ( Fig. 35 ). Legs . Short, fore coxae armed with a fine spine, open tympana on inner and on outer fore tibiae, that are furrowed dorsally. Ventral inner margin of fore femora armed with 4 spines, ventral outer margin of mid femora armed, ventral outer and inner margins of hind femora armed with 10 spines, genicular lobes of hind femora armed with 1 spine on inner and outer margins. Fore tibiae ventrally armed with 4 spines + 1 long apical spur on outer and inner margins, mid tibiae armed on outer and inner margins, hind tibiae with many spines on ventral and dorsal margins + 3 apical spurs on each side. Abdomen . Cerci stout at the base, with a robust apical inward spine ( Figs. 33–34 ). Subgenital plate much longer than wide, ending with two styli ( Fig. 33 ). Measurements (mm). Male. Body length: 18.0; length of pronotum: 6.0; height of pronotum: 4.0; length of fore femora: 4.5; length of hind femora: 22.5; length of tegmina: 30.0; width of tegmina: 10.0. Etymology . From Latin ocellatus = bearing eyespots, after the presence of eyespots on tegmina. Distribution . At present Paraeurycorypha ocellata n. sp. is known only from Dzanga-Sangha SR.