Paraeumigus escalerai (Bolivar, 1912)

Massa, Bruno, 2013, Pamphagidae (Orthoptera: Caelifera) of North Africa: key to genera and the annotated check-list of species, Zootaxa 3700 (3), pp. 435-475 : 453

Paraeumigus escalerai (Bolivar, 1912)

Material examined. Morocco, Msuda de Haha à Mtonga, 18♂, 7♀ syntypes; El Glaui, 1♂; Temrilt, 1♂; High Atlas, Plateau Kik, 1♂; Utanga, 1♂ (MNCN).

This species is characterized by a raised pronotum with evident central and lateral keels, continued on the abdomen ( Figs. 125 , 154 ). The phallic complex shows short apex of aedeagus valves, that are moderately wide; the basal part, which is rather narrow, shows 3 columnar keels per side ( Fig. 126 ). Its distribution covers Middle and High Atlas.

Figures

FIGURES 123 – 148. 123 – 145. Characters of species of the Moroccan genus Paraeumigus, included P. lopezi n. sp. (141 – 145, holotype and allotype, BMCP). 146 – 148. Lateral view of Amigus nigroadspersus and its phallic complex. Figs. 124, 135 – 137, 139 – 140 after La Greca (1993).

FIGURES 149 – 160. Females of some species of the Morocco genus Paraeumigus: P. fortius syntype (149 – 150), P. sobrinus syntypes (151 – 153), P. escalerai syntype (154), P. l o pe zi n. sp. allotype (155), P. bolivari paratype (156), P. montanus (157, after Chopard 1943), P. tricoloripes (158), P. parvulus (159 – 160).