Oxyduronia anablepioides, Popov †, George B., Fishpool, Lincoln D. C. & Rowell, C. Hugh F., 2019

Popov †, George B., Fishpool, Lincoln D. C. & Rowell, C. Hugh F., 2019, A review of the Acridinae s. str. (Orthoptera: Acridoidea: Acrididae) of eastern Africa with taxonomic changes and description of new taxa, Journal of Orthoptera Research 28 (2), pp. 37-105 : 60

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jor.28.29312

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Oxyduronia anablepioides
status

sp. n.

Oxyduronia anablepioides View in CoL sp. n. Figs 99, 100, 104, 117-119

Material.

-Holotype male: S.W. TANZANIA: Ufipa plateau, 16 mi. N.N.W. of Sumbawanga, Mkundi Plantation, 16-27.V.1966, N.D. Jago (NHMUK). Paratypes: 3 males, 1 female, same data as holotype; l female, Ufipa, Malenja, 1.IV.1950, H. Backlund; l male, Ufipa, Nsangu, 7000' (2134 m) 13.III.1959, Vesey-Fitzgerald. MALAWI: l male, N. Rukuru, Nyika Plateau, 18.III.1967, Whellan (NHMUK).

Description.

-As for genus. Size (in mm): total length: males 18-20, females 32-34. Antennae in male subequal to equal, in female distinctly shorter than combined length of head and pronotum. Tegmina not quite reaching hind knee. Coloration both sexes in shades of green and brown; dorsally grass-green, sides marbled and spotted in varying shades of brown, except for green longitudinal stripes in upper part of lateral pronotal lobes and anal and precostal areas of tegmina. Membrane of tegmen thicker and brown basally, semi-transparent and pinkish apically; hind wing hyaline, faintly infumate apically. Hind femora including knee, brown; outer face with more or less pronounced greenish wash. Hind tibiae dirty brown, spines tipped blackish-brown. Underside brownish.

Distribution.

-S.W. TANZANIA: Ufipa Plateau and N. MALAWI.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Orthoptera

Family

Acrididae

Genus

Oxyduronia