Brachytrupes testaceus

Abstract

Species <i>Brachytrupes testaceus</i> (Karny, 1910) (Table 1, Fig. 1) <p> <i>Gymnogryllus testaceus</i> Karny, 1910: p. 45</p> <p> <b>Type material:</b> holotype ♀, Africa, Southern Africa, Botswana, Kalahari, Severelela-Kakir. MfN.</p> <p> <b>Description</b> (Karny 1910, Otte 1988). Small body, pale straw-coloured. Head, pronotum, and forewings smooth and shiny. Front legs with rows of very long bristles. Pronotum saddle-shaped. Last tergal segment of hind tarsi, bulbous at distal end. Head: straw-coloured, forehead between lateral ocelli dark brown, median ocellus missing, face yellowish, but upper lobe of clypeus may be reddish or dark brown; clypeus strongly convex, and the cheeks straw-coloured. Pronotum: saddle-shaped with strongly concave sides (dorsal view) and with outer portions of muscle attachment plates grooved; dorsum pale brown but muscle attachment plates darker brown; lateral lobes pale. Forewings straw-colored, extending beyond the abdomen. Hind wings of examined males had been shed; abdomen pale. Front legs: tibiae with very long, thin bristles arranged into one ventral and two dorsal rows; apical spurs long, sharp, and concave on inner face, middle one longest. Middle legs: tibiae shorter and with fewer bristles than front tibiae. Hind legs: femora with distinct or indistinct oblique brown stripes on middle of outer surface, and with an inner and an outer brown patch proximal to knees; tibiae with a row of bristles along outer edge of posterior margin; spurs 0-1 and i-1 very short, spurs 0-2,0-3; i-2 and i-3 long and sharp and not bearing bristles; third tarsal segment bulbous at distal end.</p> <p> <b>Female</b>. Similar in coloration and size to males. Forewings extend about five times longer than pronotum.</p>Published as part of <i>Simeu-Noutchom, Alain, Heller, Klaus-Gerhard, Nyobe, Philene Corinne Aude Um & Kekeunou, Sevilor, 2023, Taxonomy review of the genus Brachytrupes (Orthoptera: Gryllidae) with the description of a new species and key to the species, pp. 373-388 in Zootaxa 5336 (3)</i> on page 377, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5336.3.4, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/8281577">http://zenodo.org/record/8281577</a&gt