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Plazi
Description . Male ( Fig. 45a ). General habitus and colour pattern. Large to medium sized species with broad wings. Posterior part of pronotum dark brown with two small white patches. Hind legs with pattern of dark stripes, also joints of fore and mid legs of same dark brown colour. Along midline where tegmina meet irregular black to brown set patches. On anterior margin of tegmina with ivory spots on dark ground. Head and antennae. Eyes ovalroundish, very dark. Antennae long and thin, brown. Fastigium of vertex forming a ridge with sulcus; fastigium of frons conical; both fastigia separated by deep gap. Fastigium of vertex and fastigium of frons green while face dark brown. Thorax and legs. Anterior margin of pronotum almost straight. Posterior part of pronotum strongly deflexed in metazona ( Figs 43–44 ). Metazona of pronotum dark brown with small well defined white patches or white patches larger and diffuse. Tegmina broad with truncate margin. At costal area conspicuous pattern of ivory patches set in broad dark brown fascia. Stridulatory file on underside of left tegmen long, almost straight with teeth largest in middle part, with 55–60 teeth ( Fig. 66 ); teeth in the middle larger and more widely spaced than at both ends. Fore coxa without spine. Tympana of fore tibiae open on inner side, conchate on outer side, whole area slightly inflated and marked dark brown in this area. Fore femora on inner side with 5 inner ventral spines and 2–4 outer dorsal, mid femora with 2–3 inner ventral spines, hind femora with 6–9 black inner and outer ventral spines. Fore tibiae with 5 inner dorsal spines; 2 pair of spurs. Mid tibiae with ventral row of 7–8 irregular set pairs of spines, 1– 2 on both dorsal sides and 2 pairs of spurs. Hind tibiae tetragonal with 4 rows of numerous spines; with 3–5 enlarged, densely set spines basally and more than 25 spines on upper margins ( Fig. 45b ); dorsal 1 pair of spurs, ventral 2 pairs. Abdomen. Cerci long and slender with club with small apical spine, sinuous at apical part and decussate ( Fig. 100 ). Club small, dark. Subgenital plate longer than wide and without styli. Female. Unknown.