Orthoptera (Insecta: Tettigonioidea, Pyrgomorphoidea, Acridoidea) of Kafa Biosphere Reserve, Bale Mountains National Park and other areas of conservation interest in Ethiopia
Author
Felix, Rob P. W. H.
Author
Massa, Bruno
text
Zootaxa
2016
4189
1
1
59
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4189.1.1
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Peropyrrhicia massaiae
(
De Bormans, 1881
)
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Figure 22
Measurements
.
See
Table 3
.
Distribution.
Endemic to
Ethiopia
.
FIGURE 20.
Posterior view of the 10th tergite of males
Peropyrrhicia
FIGURE 21.
Ventral view of the 10th tergite of males
Peropyrrhicia
.
Remarks
. According to
Ragge (1980)
P. scotti
Uvarov, 1934
is synonymous with
P. massaiae
.
De Bormans
(1881)
described the male of
P. massaiae
from Let Marefià (
Ethiopia
), a locality near Ankober,
140 km
NE of
Addis Ababa
, ca
.
2600 m
altitude, while the
type
of
P. s c ot t i
was collected between
Addis Ababa
and
Jem-Jem
, ca
.
2400 m
, ca.
175 km
SW of Let Marefià. According
to
De Bormans
(1881)
the male is characterized by "supra-genital plate wide, cylindrical, longer than cerci, up-curved, with darkened and cut apex.
Subgenital
plate green, wide, with nearly square base, serrated apex and triangularly excised from apical angles into two lobes, closed to apex, semicircularly up-curved, before the apex provided by a small internal obtuse tooth, with cylindrical base, and compressed by a tooth, as in gen.
Pyrrhicia
Stål
" (translated from
Latin
).
The
type
of
P. massaiae
(originally preserved in alcohol at the
MSNG
) was lost; two spine-like lateral processes depart from the tenth abdominal tergite of
P. scotti
and
P. cooperi
, not mentioned in the description of
P. massaiae
(
Uvarov
1934, pers. obs.
).
However
,
Ragge
(1980)
interpreted the sentence of
De Bormans
(1881)
"apicem versus dente parvo interno, obtuso instructos" as the small internal tubercles that occur on the posterior processes of the subgenital plate in
P. s c ot t i
, but not in
P. cooperi
, and proposed the synonymy above reported.
However
, we consider
P. scotti
's characters to be sufficiently different to separate it from
massaiae
.
None
of the specimens examined by us fit the description of
De Bormans
(1881)
.