New and interesting Orthoptera from the Arabian Peninsula and Socotra
Author
Massa, Bruno
text
ZooKeys
2017
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37
46
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.679.11967
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.679.11967
1313-2970-679-37
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Pycnodictya dentata Krauss, 1902
Material examined.
Oman, Dhofar, Jebel Qara, Jabal Darabab (1100 m) 16.XI.2016, A. Carapezza (1♀); Oman, Dhofar, Wadi Ayun (680 m) 18.XI.2016, A. Carapezza (1♀); Saudi Arabia, Wadi Jizan 11.VIII.1978, Filipponi (1♂) (BMPC).
Remarks.
Pycnodictya dentata
can be separated from
P. galinieri
(Reiche & Fairmaire, 1849) by its blue hind tibiae (purplish in
P. galinieri
) and sinuated posterior lower angle of the pronotal lobes (not sinuated in
P. galinieri
); the color of the hind wings may vary and is not diagnostic (
Popov 1980
,
Ingrisch 1999
,
Haggag 2016
). Specimens here listed as having reddish hind wings. The presence of this species in central-west Saudi Arabia is being recorded for the first time; it was previously reported from Oman and Yemen.