Species Brachytrupes colosseus Saussure, 1899 stat. nov. (Table 4, Fig. 7) Brachytrypus membranaceus variety colossea Saussure, 1899: p. 601 Type material: holotype ♁, Africa, Western Indian Ocean, Madagascar. SMFD. Description (Saussure 1899). Body color, varying from yellow to brown; the front of the head is black-andwhite. Head large, anteriorly widest and most excavated, leathery-striated and marked with different impressions; 3 large supraocular teeth; antennae very distant from each other. Pronotum short, widened anteriorly, anterior margin sinuous, above black, with 2 pyriform red spots. Tegmina with 3 oblique veins; the first very distant from the rest, short, and sigmoidal. Only 2 teeth on the distal part of the posterior metatarsus. The internal foramen of the anterior tibiae is narrow-long. Posterior femora above brown-shaded, apex and preapical band yellow.

Published as part of 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) on page 384, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5336.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/8281577