Review of the genus Macroscirtus Pictet, 1888 (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) with the description of a new species Author Simeu-Noutchom, Alain Zoology Laboratory, Faculty of Science, University of Yaounde 1, Cameroon Author Heller, Klaus-Gerhard Bahnhof Triesdorf 8, 91732 Merkendorf, Germany Author Affa’A, Glwadys Zang 0000-0002-8338-0576 Zoology Laboratory, Faculty of Science, University of Yaounde 1, Cameroon & gzangaffaa @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 8338 - 0576 gzangaffaa@gmail.com Author Wandji, Alain Christel 0000-0002-4394-9502 Zoology Laboratory, Faculty of Science, University of Yaounde 1, Cameroon & wandjichristel @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4394 - 9502 wandjichristel@gmail.com Author Nzike, Marcelle Mbadjoun 0000-0001-5327-1638 Zoology Laboratory, Faculty of Science, University of Yaounde 1, Cameroon & marcellenzike @ yahoo. fr; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 5327 - 1638 marcellenzike@yahoo.fr text Zootaxa 2022 2022-09-16 5188 2 133 144 journal article 147465 10.11646/zootaxa.5188.2.3 4ac632bf-e2fe-4662-8060-e83ad829c703 1175-5326 7087512 A4DEEDB4-87CE-4B33-81A9-721D9D9AEC22 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.