Biogeographical and evolutionary aspects of a Guineo-Congolian bushcricket tribe: Revision of the genera Cestromoecha Karsch, 1893 and Poreuomena Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878, with the description of new species (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae, Phaneropterinae)
Author
Hemp, Claudia
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9170-7113
Dept Plant Systematics, Univ. of Bayreuth, Germany
claudia.hemp@uni-bayreuth.de
Author
Massa, Bruno
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2127-0715
Dept of Agriculture, Food and Forest Sciences, University of Palermo, Italy
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Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift
2021
2021-01-05
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45
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/dez.68.60193
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/dez.68.60193
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Poreuomena africana Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878
Figs 22-28
Poreuomena africana
Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878. Monographie der Phaneropteriden, 187; type locality: Gabon (MHNG).
Material examined.
Cameroon
(
1♂
,
1♀
) (MCNM)
;
Cameroon
,
Campo
Ma'an
National Park
(lowland rainforest) (
950 m
alt.)
10-22. III. 2018
(
UV Cold Cathode Light Trap
),
Fotsing
,
Ishmael
,
Miles
,
Safian
(
2♂
in ANHRT;
1♂
in BMPC)
;
Gabon
,
Mikongo
(
Rougier
),
Mts de Cristal
(secondary forest) (
430 m
alt.)
0°29'47"N
,
11°10'42"E
,
28. VII-12. VIII.2019
(
LepiLED Light Trap
),
Albert
,
Aristophanous
,
Bie Mba
,
Derozier
,
Moretto
(
1♂
) (ANHRT)
;
Gabon
,
Mts de Cristal National Park
,
Kinguele
3. XII. 2015
(UV) (BMPC)
;
Gabon
,
M'Bigon
26. I. 1986
,
A Pauly
(
1♂
) (RBINS)
.
Diagnosis.
The 10th abdominal tergite (Fig.
25
) is similar to that of
P. lamottei
(Fig.
78
) - with two lateral processes. However, the male cerci are completely different in
P. africana
, broader at the base tapering to acute tips of the two branches (Figs
22
,
25
,
28
) while the male cerci in
P. lamottei
are simple, expanded into three tips apically (Fig.
78
).
Description.
Tegmina about 5.8-5.9 longer than broad. Stridulatory file 0.3 mm long; teeth more widely spaced at inner side, becoming more densely set distally (Fig.
24
). Fore femora unarmed. Mid femora with 4-5 outer ventral small spines, inner ventral side unarmed. Hind femora only distally with a ventral double row of 2-3 small spines. Fore tibiae with a ventral double row of 4-5 spines; mid tibiae with a ventral double row of 5 spines, hind tibiae with 4 rows of numerous spines and apically 3 spurs on each side. Last abdominal tergite enlarged and apically bilobate and flattened (Figs
22
,
25
,
26
); cerci basally stout, apically divided into two tips, the inner shorter and incurved, the outer longer, flattened, outcurved and with 5-6 inner dark teeth like a knife (Figs
22
,
25
,
28
). The subgenital plate is short with two stout lobes with rounded tips (Figs
26
,
27
).
Colour.
Small species, uniformly green-yellowish, a little brownish around the stridulatory area (Fig.
23
) and small black dots on the posterior margins of the tegmina.
Measurements
(mm)
. Males. Body length: 18.5-19.9. Pronotum length: 3.7-3.8. Pronotum height: 2.8-2.9. Length of hind femora: 19.6-19.8. Length of tegmina: 26.5-26.8. Width of tegmina: 4.5-4.6.
Figures 22-28.
Morphological details of male
Poreuomena africana
. Drawing Fig.
53
, taken from Brunner von Wattenwyl (1878) (
22
), head and stridulatory area (
23
), stridulatory file on the underside of the left tegmen (
24
), apex in rear view (
25
) and lateral view (
26
), subgenital plate (
27
) and cerci (
28
).