Rhinaulax sericans Stål, 1856

The genus Rhinaulax is easily identified among all other African Cercopidae by the very long antennae, segment 3 about three times longer than segment 2.
Rhinaulax sericans should differ from the more common R. analis in the general dark coloration, the pubescence, and the the relatively longer head.

Translated description from Stål 1866:
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/35350#page/281/mode/1up
Black, pubescent, punctate; metasthetium [the ventral side of the metathorax = metasternum] posteriorly, hind coxae almost entirely and tegmina testaceous; the intraocular part of the head is twice as wide as it is long. On the front, an oblong, wide impression, extended from the base beyond the middle, furrowed in the middle, lined.

Observations in inat:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/160929232
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/34010525
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/34293254
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/34058034

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