Some new species of Phaneroptera, Eulioptera and Scolocerca (Orthoptera Tettigoniidae: Phaneropterinae) from West Tropical Africa
Author
Massa, Bruno
0000-0003-2127-0715
Department of Agriculture, Food and Forest Sciences, University of Palermo, Viale Scienze 13, 90128 Palermo, Italy (retired) bruno. massa @ unipa. it; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2127 - 0715
bruno.massa@unipa.it
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Zootaxa
2021
2021-03-18
4948
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123
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journal article
7555
10.11646/zootaxa.4948.1.7
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1175-5326
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Eulioptera longicaudata
(Massa, 2017)
n. comb.
Dithela longicaudata
Massa, 2017
, Zootaxa 4358(3): 403;
type
locality:
Democratic Republic of the Congo
,
Kalulu
(RBINS).
Remarks
. This species has the fore coxae unarmed and 3 apical spurs on each side of hind tibiae; it was tentatively ascribed to the genus
Dithela
Karsch, 1890
by
Massa (2017b)
. On the light of newly described species with unarmed fore coxae (
Hemp & Heller 2019
,
Naskrecki & Guta 2019
, Massa in press), it is here proposed to transfer this species to the genus
Eulioptera
.
Distribution
.
E. longicaudata
n. comb.
has been described from
Democratic Republic of Congo
, and later has been recorded from north
Zambia
(Massa in press).