taxonID	type	description	language	source
5B6CCA05F955575D9BEAB67B7D362BEE.taxon	description	Description. - Male. General coloration: Dorsally broad brown fascia running over head, pronotum, and abdomen; this brown fascia medially with three fine white lines, interrupted at each segment; end of abdomen light brown and white lines obsolete. Eyes reddish. Legs green, hind knees dark, tibiae bright blue (Fig. 1 A-C). Head and antennae. Antenna about body length or slightly shorter; antennal segments much longer than wide. Eyes globular, strongly protruding. Fastigium verticis very narrow between eyes, appears only as a callous ridge; in front of eyes widening to rhomboid structure (Fig. 2 A). Frontal ridge typical for genus, strongly projecting in front of eyes; shallow concave and punctured; carinae below the ocellus flat and almost obsolete. Thorax. Thorax strongly wrinkled and impressed with dots, deeply crossed by two sulci; lateral carinae absent. Anterior margin evenly rounded; posterior margin medially incurved (Fig. 2 A). Prosternal tubercle conical, laterally compressed. Tegmina strongly reduced, elongate lobes with narrow anterior part, slightly widening posteriorly, broadly rounded and with reduced venation (Fig. 3 C). Alae absent. Legs. Fore and mid femora round, with largest diameter in the middle; unarmed. Hind femora stout; unarmed. Fore and mid tibiae also roundish, unarmed except for black spurs; fore tibiae with three outer and two inner spurs, mid tibiae each with an outer and an inner pair of spurs. Hind tibiae with double row of dorsal long spines, white at the base, with black tips; on inner side, two large and laterally flattened spurs, on outer side, a pair of smaller but also enlarged stout spurs. Tarsi of light color; mid tarsal segment very short, the other two segments about 3 times as long as the middle one. Abdomen. Supra-anal plate typical for Coptacrinae, elongate, tongue-like with elevated lateral margins and a rounded tip (Fig. 4 C). Furcula of 10 th abdominal tergite well developed. Cerci slightly longer than supra-anal plate; inwardly curved and laterally slightly compressed. Subgenital plate with well-developed transverse fold. Epiphallus as in Fig. 5. Bridge divided (Fig. 5 A), lophi curved, almost tri-angular with acute apices (Fig. 5 C, D), posterior processes narrow and elongated with rounded apices, anterior processes rounded (Fig. 5 A). Ancorae well developed (Fig. 5 A). Female. Coloration similar to male but duller and also with bright blue hind tibiae. Larger and stouter but with same spination of the legs (Fig. 1 D, Fig. 2 C). Supra-anal plate elongate, anterior part sculptured (Fig. 6 A). Subgenital plate broad with acute tip at posterior margin (Fig. 6 B).	en	Hemp, Claudia (2021): A new species of Physocrobylus (Caelifera: Acridoidea: Acrididae: Coptacrinae), with notes on the phenology and habitat of the genus. Journal of Orthoptera Research 30 (1): 1-6, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jor.30.53375, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jor.30.53375
5B6CCA05F955575D9BEAB67B7D362BEE.taxon	description	Measurements. - (mm) Males (n = 6). Body length: 14.7 - 16.7; Median length of pronotum: 2.5 - 3.4; length of tegmina: 3.1 - 3.7; length of hind femur: 10.1 - 11.2. Females (n = 6). Body length: 20.1 - 22.0; Median length of pronotum: 3.7 - 4.2; length of tegmina: 3.5 - 4.3; length of hind femur: 14.0 - 14.5. Diagnosis. - In habitus and size, P. venetus sp. nov. is similar to P. tessa from the East Usambara Mountains but is less stout, while P. burtti is smaller and very stout (Fig. 7). Pronotum posteriorly not as wide as in P. tessa. Also, the coloration of P. venetus sp. nov. differs from both other Physocrobylus species. The femora are bright green in P. venetus sp. nov. while they are brown or speckled brown in the other two species, although specimens of P. tessa from the Nilo Forest Reserve population can also have partly dark green legs or speckled green legs (Fig. 7). Easily distinguished also by the bright blue tibiae in both sexes of P. venetus sp. nov., while P. tessa has brown to green hind tibiae and P. burtti has brown tibiae in both sexes. The tegmina in males of the three species are of similar shape, all reduced to elongate lobes with reduced venation (Fig. 3). However, P. tessa has slightly broader tegmina compared to the other two species. Differences are also found in the outer genitalic morphology of the males (Fig. 4). The male cerci of P. burtti are thick and rugose in the basal half with tips round and marked darker brown to black. The cerci of both P. tessa and P. venetus sp. nov. are laterally compressed, especially in the apical half, and darker to black at their tips. All three species have differently shaped epiphalli (see fig. 1 d, e in Hochkirch (1996), figs 5 - 7 in Jago (1978) and fig. 5). Similar to P. tessa, the ectophallus has two sclerotized ridges.	en	Hemp, Claudia (2021): A new species of Physocrobylus (Caelifera: Acridoidea: Acrididae: Coptacrinae), with notes on the phenology and habitat of the genus. Journal of Orthoptera Research 30 (1): 1-6, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jor.30.53375, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jor.30.53375
5B6CCA05F955575D9BEAB67B7D362BEE.taxon	etymology	Etymology. - From latin: - Physocrobylus venetus = green, blue-green, because of the blue tibiae and partly green body and legs.	en	Hemp, Claudia (2021): A new species of Physocrobylus (Caelifera: Acridoidea: Acrididae: Coptacrinae), with notes on the phenology and habitat of the genus. Journal of Orthoptera Research 30 (1): 1-6, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jor.30.53375, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jor.30.53375
5B6CCA05F955575D9BEAB67B7D362BEE.taxon	distribution	Distribution. - Tanzania, Nguru Mountains.	en	Hemp, Claudia (2021): A new species of Physocrobylus (Caelifera: Acridoidea: Acrididae: Coptacrinae), with notes on the phenology and habitat of the genus. Journal of Orthoptera Research 30 (1): 1-6, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jor.30.53375, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jor.30.53375
