Pamphagidae (Orthoptera: Caelifera) of North Africa: key to genera and the annotated check-list of species
Author
Massa, Bruno
text
Zootaxa
2013
3700
3
435
475
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3700.3.7
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1175-5326
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Neotmethis bidentatus
Usmani, 2008
]
Usmani (2008) described the genus
Neotmethis
, which should differ from
Tmethis
for the following characters: vertex moderately broad, weakly sloping forward, pronotum with median carina in prozona bilobate, in metazona not raised, metazona of pronotum thin, plate-like, hardly longer than prozona, much wider than its own length; hind wing without dark band.
As it has been discussed in the previous sections, the genus
Tmethis
and its species are much variable both in the structure, integuments, stoutness, presence of hairs and colour of wings and legs; characters of the genus
Neotmethis
lie within the variability of
Tmethis
.
Neotmethis bidentatus
has been described only on a single female, from Sebha (Fezzan) but characters listed by Usmani (2008) match rather well with the variability of
T. harterti
, of which it should be considered a junior synonym.