The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma / edited by A.E. Shipley, assisted by Guy A.K. Marshall. Orthoptera. (Acridiidae) / by W.F. Kirby.

Date:
1914
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Credit: The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma / edited by A.E. Shipley, assisted by Guy A.K. Marshall. Orthoptera. (Acridiidae) / by W.F. Kirby. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Genus TRIPETALOCERA. Tripetalocera, Westwood, Vig'ors' Zoolog. Journ. v, 1B34, p. 444; Bolivar, Ann, Soc. Ent. Belg. xxxi, 1887, pp. 190, 19U, 310; Hancock, Gen. Ins., Orth. Tetriginae, 1900, p. 4; Kirby, Cat. Orth. iii, 1910, p. 1. TrPE, Tripetalocera ferruginea, Westw. Range. Oriental Eegion. Form long, rather narrow, tapering. Head with a strong bifid projection between the eyes ; eyes very large and prominent. Antennae half as long as the body, S-jointed, the basal joint short, the second shorter, moniliform, the rest (except the miuute terminal joints) considerably longer than broad, but all broad and flattened and usually broadest at the extremity; terminal joints very short, filiform. Pronotum covering the whole body, the lateral lobes strongly spined, the upper surface very rugose, with a strong triangular hump before the middle, and a lateral spine between the front and middle legs. All the femora flattened, with triangular teeth on the carinse above and below. Tegmina (when visible) small, oval. Upper valves of ovipositor deutated above. 1. Tripetalocera ferruginea, Westw. Tripetalocera ferruginea, Westwood, Zool. Jouni. v, 1834, p. 444, pi. xxii, fig-'. 3. Dark ferruginous brown, with a bifid projection between the antenufe, which are placed hardly below the level of the prominent eyes, and are 11-jointed. The first two joints are short and broader than the 3rd, which is moniliform, smooth, Fig. 15.— Tripetalocera Jerruginea, and shining; the 4th and 5th are short, widened at the ex- tremity ; the 6th to the 10th are longer than broad, triquetral, and expanded at the exti'emities, except the 10th, which is more oval; from it projects the minute joint 11, Avhich is apparently broken off, and perhaps consists of two or three closely-approxi- mating joints. Body very rugose, a strong triangular denticulated hump a little before the middle, and a strong pointed tooth on