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 Macroscirtus brevipennis Redtenbacher, 1892 Fig. 6 ; Tables 3 Type material: holotype ♀ , Africa , West Tropical Africa , Sierre Leone. NMW . Description: Body dark. Back of the head and pronotum shelled, brown or black on both sides. Tegmina scarcely exceeding abdomen, narrow, rounded at the apex, brownish, sparsely and palely brown-stained. Hind wings narrow, slightly shorter than tegmina. Testaceous front legs with a single external spine drawn above; brownishrusty hind tibia. Fore femur brown, unarmed; hind femur very thickened at the base, transversely areolate on the outside, with a raised line, shiny, well arranged in longitudinal section, paler below, and armed with 4-5 spines on each side at the apical half. Ovipositor ferruginous. Distribution ( Fig. 6 ): Sierra Leone ( type locality); Equatorial Guinea , Cabo San Juan, ( Bolivar, 1906 ).