Pteropera verrucigena Karsch, 1891

Yetchom Fondjo, Jeanne Agrippine, Nzoko Fiemapong, Armand Richard, Tindo, Maurice, Duressa, Tarekegn Fite, Ivković, Slobodan & Husemann, Martin, 2024, Taxonomic review of the grasshopper genus Pteropera Karsch, 1891 (Orthoptera, Acrididea, Catantopinae) with description of three new species and a preliminary phylogeny of the Cameroonian species, ZooKeys 1216, pp. 219-264 : 219-264

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.3897/zookeys.1216.130270

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13992786

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scientific name

Pteropera verrucigena Karsch, 1891
status

 

Pteropera verrucigena Karsch, 1891 View in CoL

Figs 6 G, H View Figure 6 , 11 E, F View Figure 11

Type material examined.

Lectotype. Cameroon • ♂; Barombi Station ; 4 ° 40.016 ' N, 9 ° 22.999 ' E; Dr. Paul Preuss leg.; MfN, BA 000175 View Materials S 01 View Materials - DORSA. GoogleMaps

Other material examined.

Cameroon • 2 ♂♂, 1 ♀; Sohock ; 4 ° 57.250 ' N, 10 ° 14.833 ' E; 3 Apr. 2017; J. A. Yetchom Fondjo leg.; SMNK GoogleMaps .

Redescription.

Male: medium size, integument rugous; head conical and oblique; fastigium of vertex short with obtuse apex; eyes prominent and globose; antenna, filiform longer than head and pronotum combined; pronotum without lateral carinae and with straight median carina, crossed by three sulci, its anterior and posterior margins rounded and incised in the middle; pale basal band of lateral lobes of pronotum narrowed in front of second transverse furrow but not interrupted; longitudinal median band of pronotum disc dark and less wider than adjacent clear bands; prozona longer than metazona; prosternal tubercle conical; anterior margin of mesosternum broadly projected medially; mesosternal space open and longer than it is wide; elytra vestigial or lobiform; median pale spot on inner area of hind femora absent; outer area of hind femora with three pale spots; incipient spots along medio-superior margin at level of outer spots present; dorsal carina of hind femora finely toothed; lower outer areas of hind femora dark, wine-colored; hind tibiae wine-colored; distal half of hind tibiae widened, basal ring present; supra-anal plate subconical, with two digital tubercles near lateral margins; subgenital plate short conical, gradually tapering towards rounded apex; cerci conical, curved inward and without preapical lobule. Epiphallus (Fig. 15 Q View Figure 15 ): bridge narrow, short and arched; ancorae small, close together and with acute apex; lophi short, broad and lobiform; lateral plates broad and rounded; anterior and posterior projections short. Phallic complex (Fig. 15 R – T View Figure 15 ): dorsal arch of the cingulum V-shaped, strongly open not overlying the endophallic sclerites; latero-ventral sclerite broad, subtriangular; zygoma wide; apodemes of the cingulum long, reaching the apex of the endophallic apodemes; lower ectophallic sheath not enveloping the base of the rami; upper ectophallic sheath globular, sloping forward.

Female: Similar to the male but larger; supra-anal plate conical with a transverse groove in the middle field; posterior edge of the subgenital plate projecting; cercus conical with angular apex; dorsal valves of the ovipositor weakly toothed; base of the spermathecal duct widened well before it opened into the copulatory bursa; spermatheca ampulla relatively thin; distal, recurrent trunk of the spermatheca lateral diverticulum> 3 × longer than the proximal trunk.

Remarks.

Pteropera verrucigena was originally described from Barombi station (southwest Cameroon) with some paratypes recorded between Kumba-Mamfé (Southwest Cameroon) by Karsch (1891). We now additionally recorded the species from Sohock (Littoral Cameroon).

Distribution.

Cameroon (Fig. 18 B View Figure 18 ).

MfN

Museum für Naturkunde

SMNK

Staatliches Museum fuer Naturkunde Karlsruhe (State Museum of Natural History)

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Orthoptera

InfraOrder

Acrididea

Family

Acrididae

SubFamily

Catantopinae

Genus

Pteropera