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<mods:titleid="25368C01B088F914ADFF58AF734840C3">Taxonomic review of the grasshopper genus Pteropera Karsch, 1891 (Orthoptera, Acrididea, Catantopinae) with description of three new species and a preliminary phylogeny of the Cameroonian species</mods:title>
<mods:affiliationid="CC1D9BE316263231AF9FC99405082B75">Zoology Unit, Laboratory of Biology and Physiology of Animal Organisms, Graduate School in Fundamental and Applied Sciences, University of Douala, Douala, Cameroon & Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany</mods:affiliation>
<mods:affiliationid="A76AF02710960732CBA7FE49728FEC95">Zoology Unit, Laboratory of Biology and Physiology of Animal Organisms, Graduate School in Fundamental and Applied Sciences, University of Douala, Douala, Cameroon</mods:affiliation>
<mods:affiliationid="6D0521FD00175E9127ED462CC47A0A56">Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany & School of Plant Sciences, College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Haramaya University, Dire Dawa, Ethiopia</mods:affiliation>
<bibRefCitationid="C0845508664055D399F9AF434C7ECDAC"DOI="10.1080/21686351.1981.12278263"author="Donskoff M"issue="1"journalOrPublisher=")"pagination="33-88"refId="B4"refString="Donskoff M (1981) Les acridiens de la foret africaine. I. Revision du genre Pteropera Karsch, 1891 (Orthoptera, Acrididae). Annales de la Societe entomologique de France (N. S.) 17 (1): 33 - 88. [51 figs] https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 21686351.1981. 12278263"title="Les acridiens de la forêt africaine. I. Révision du genre Pteropera Karsch, 1891 (Orthoptera, Acrididae). Annales de la Société entomologique de France (N. S."volume="17"year="1981">Donskoff, 1981</bibRefCitation>
<figureCitationid="57076072665D1C995C75CCBCF87AE97D"captionStart="Figure 3"captionStartId="F3"captionText="Figure 3. Images of holotypes and allotypes of Pteropera species in lateral view A P. carnapi (holotype ♂) B P. carnapi (paratype ♀) C P. congoensis (holotype ♂) D P. congoensis (allotype ♀) E P. cornici (holotype ♂) F P. cornici (allotype ♀) G P. descampsi (holotype ♂) H P. descampsi (allotype ♀) I P. descarpentriesi (holotype ♂) J P. descarpentriesi (allotype ♀)."figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1216.130270.figure3"httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/1160991">Figs 3 G, H</figureCitation>
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<figureCitationid="4919CDE78129BD1A68E53B26D5F0DA81"captionStart="Figure 8"captionStartId="F8"captionText="Figure 8. Images of holotypes, allotypes and paratype of Pteropera species in dorsal view A P. carnapi (holotype ♂) B P. carnapi (paratype ♀) C P. congoensis (holotype ♂) D P. congoensis (allotype ♀) E P. cornici (holotype ♂) F P. cornici (allotype ♀) G P. descampsi (holotype ♂) H P. descampsi (allotype ♀) I P. descarpentriesi (holotype ♂) J P. descarpentriesi (allotype ♀)."figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1216.130270.figure8"httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/1160996">8 G, H</figureCitation>
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Subocellar facial spot V-shaped, wide; dark median longitudinal band on the pronotum disc not very distinct; the two contiguous pale bands present; lower part of body very pale on living specimen; pronotum disc shiny brownish; pale basal posterior spots on the lateral lobes of the pronotum extending almost to the lower margin; lower half of elytra shiny black, upper half brown; meso- and metathoracic episternites with pale, narrow, median and basal band; front and middle legs pale green; outer and inner sides of hind femora pale, greenish yellow with apical third gradually darkening towards the pregenicular black ring; knees pale brown; hind tibiae green, sometimes very dark; male subgenital plate truncated; male cerci with a small inner preapical lobe.
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): dorsal arch of cingulum V-shaped, open, apodemes reaching apex of endophallic sclerites; rami bent; upper ectophallic sheath short; lower ectophallic sheath not capping base of rami; latero-ventral sclerite subtriangular.
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