Pachycatantops sp.

Massa, Bruno, 2022, New and less known Orthoptera from biodiversity hotspots of Mozambique and Zambia (Tettigoniidae; Acrididae), Fragmenta entomologica 54 (1), pp. 27-44 : 40

Pachycatantops sp.

Material examined. Zambia: Lakeview Lodge , Sinazongwe (493m), Lepiled Light Trap 23-28.II.2019, V . Dérozier, M. Imakando, W. Miles, L. Mulvaney (1♂) ( ANHRT) .

Remarks. The habitus and size of this specimen ( Fig. 14 ) is quite similar to that of P. crassipes (Ramme, 1929) (described from Kenya and known also from Somalia and Tanzania: Rowell & Hemp 2018). However, the single male collected in Zambia is more brachypterous than O. crassipes , and cerci are pointed and bifurcate, while in P. crassipes they are with subacute obliquely truncate apex ( Dirsh 1965; Rowell & Hemp 2018). In absence of other specimens, it is preferable not to describe it as new.

Acknowledgements – I thank very much Richard Smith, Chairman of the African Natural History Research Trust (ANHRT) (Hereford, UK), who loaned the specimens collected in Zambia and Mozambique in 2018 and 2019, Hitoshi Takano, research and curator of ANHRT, who sent me some information on the collecting sites, and the collectors and collaborators in entomological expeditions carried out by ANHRT to Zambia and Mozambique. Collectors were M. Aristophanous, M. Bashford, V. Dérozier, M. Imakando, R. Goff, J. Laszlo, W. Miles, J. Mulvaney, L. Smith Mulvaney, D. Oram, H. Takano. Guyla Laszlo and William Miles kindly sent some photos of the collecting sites. I am indebted with Claudia Hemp who kindly confirmed some identifications, and with Roberto Poggi for his bibliographic assistance. This research received support from the Synthesys Project, which is financed by European Community Research Infrastructure Action under the FP7 “Capacities” Programme at the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid (CSIC) (2013: ES-TAF-2438), the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (2014: DETAF-4109), the Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna (2016: ATTAF-5324), the National Museum, Prague (2016: CZ-TAF-5559) and the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Bruxelles (2017: BE-TAF-6319). I also thank Mercedes Paris (Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales of Madrid), Michael Ohl (Museum für Naturkunde of Berlin), Suzanne Randolf and Harald Bruckner (Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna), Jérôme Constant (Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Bruxelles), Martin Fikáček (National Museum Natural History, Prague), Laure Desutter (Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris), Roberto Poggi (Museo di Storia Naturale ‘G. Doria’, Genoa), who facilitated the study of specimens preserved in their museums.

Figures

Fig. 14 – Pachycatantops sp.: habitus in lateral view and abdominal apex in lateral and dorsal view; the arrow indicates cerci shape.