A review of the Acridinae s. str. (Orthoptera: Acridoidea: Acrididae) of eastern Africa with taxonomic changes and description of new taxa
Author
Popov †, George B.
Author
Fishpool, Lincoln D. C.
Author
Rowell, C. Hugh F.
text
Journal of Orthoptera Research
2019
28
2
37
105
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jor.28.29312
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jor.28.29312
1937-2426-2-37
Brachybothrus phyllopterus
sp. n.
Figs 297-303
Material.
-Holotype male: SOMALIA: 5 km S. of Dinsor, 31.VII.1981, broad-leaf bush and
Acacia
on red sand. All paratypes: 3 males, 1 female, same data as holotype; 5 males, 6 females, 5 km S. of Bardera, 30.VII.1981, thorn scrub and loose stones on silt, Ritchie (NHMUK).
Description.
-As in key and generic description. Coloration speckled in shades of fawn, brown and blackish-brown. Dorsally, an ochraceous stripe of varying width runs from fastigium to tip of abdomen. This is flanked by a broader subdorsal, contrasting dark-brown band extending from antennal sockets across postocular area and upper pronotal lobes to anal areas of tegmina, and contrasts with pale-ivory of lower cheeks and large spot in lower part of lateral pronotal lobe. Underside pale fawn. Outer face of hind femur fawn, upper ferruginous, with two brown transverse bands; hind knee and adjacent basal part of tibia blackish-brown, outlined by pale sub-basal rings; rest of tibia and lower area of femur slate-grey. Coloration of females more uniform in less contrasting shades of ferruginous-brown. Some specimens have large dark spots in metazona and upper face of hind femur.
Measurements.
-See Table 10.
Discussion.
-As under genus; marked terricole mode of life.
Distribution.
-SOMALIA.