Peropyrrhicia massaiae ( De Bormans, 1881 )

Felix, Rob P. W. H. & Massa, Bruno, 2016, Orthoptera (Insecta: Tettigonioidea, Pyrgomorphoidea, Acridoidea) of Kafa Biosphere Reserve, Bale Mountains National Park and other areas of conservation interest in Ethiopia, Zootaxa 4189 (1), pp. 1-59 : 25-27

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scientific name	Peropyrrhicia massaiae ( De Bormans, 1881 )
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Peropyrrhicia massaiae ( De Bormans, 1881)

http://lsid.speciesfile.org/urn:lsid: Orthoptera .speciesfile.org:TaxonName:8518 Figure 22 View FIGURE 22

Measurements. See Table 3 View TABLE 3 .

Distribution. Endemic to Ethiopia.

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).