Culmulus Uvarov, 1953

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 : 41

Culmulus Uvarov, 1953

Culmulus Uvarov, 1953: 163.

Type species.

- Culmulus stramineus Uvarov, 1953, by original designation.

Description.-As in key to genera. Small, body elongate, slender, straw-like. Integument ridged. Antenna ensiform, broad at base, as long as, or longer than, head and pronotum. Head elongate, narrowly pointed. Fastigium longer than longest diameter of eye, with parabolic vertex and medial carinula. Foveolae absent. Frontal ridge with margins lamelliformly compressed above antennal sockets, divergent below. Pronotum short, narrow with sharp parallel carinae. Dorsum crossed by two sulci. Metazona shorter than prozona, its hind margin obtuse-angular. Mesosternal interspace strongly constricted, open. Tegmina and wings fully developed, acutely pointed apically; venation and reticulation dense. Hind femur narrow, slender, not reaching tip of abdomen. Lobes of hind knee of equal length. Apex of male abdomen (Fig. 44). Epiphallus (Fig. 15).

Measurements.-See Table 1.

Discussion.-The genus contains two described species: stramineus Uvarov, 1953 and crassior Uvarov, l953, both described from Angola, but only the former reaches eastern Africa.