Toxopyrgota Hendel, 1914

Genus Toxopyrgota Hendel, 1914 View in CoL

Type species: Toxopyrgota inclinata Hendel, 1914 (by original designation).

Toxopyrgota inclinata Hendel, 1914: 78 View in CoL ; 1917: 34; Steyskal, 1972: 8; 1980: 562.

D i a g n o s i s. The genus can be distinguished from other pyrgotids by the combination of the tribal characters (see above) and the ocelli lacking ( apomorphy, apparently lost independently from most other tribes of the Pyrgotinae ); body densely and long setulose, subshining, not microtrichose; frontal plates with 2–5 pairs or irregular setae; membrane of subcranial cavity between arms of subgenae non-sclerotized, forming no epistome; gena as high as eye, subocular sclerite not developed; mesonotum with full set of setae, and numerous additional dorsocentral setae; femora not swollen, without femoral organ or short spinulae, strongly elongated, long and densely setulose; and wing with bare vein R 4+5 and brownish-grey mottled pattern; abdomen with very wide sternites in both sexes; phallus with almost non-sclerotized glans.

R e m a r k s. This monotypic genus occurs only in the mountains of the Subsaharan Africa.