Gymnobothrus carinatus Uvarov, 1941

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 : 70-71

Gymnobothrus carinatus Uvarov, 1941 Figs 181, 182

Gymnobothrus carinatus Uvarov, 1941: 50.

Material.

-SOUTH AFRICA: Western Cape (as Cape Province): Cape peninsula, Groote Schuur, Kirstenbosch; Constantia Nek; (Orange) Free State: Zostron; Kwa-Zulu Natal: Drakensberg. LESOTHO: Mokhotlong.

Description.

-Slightly smaller but more robust than preceding species. Size (in mm); total length: males 14-15, females 17-18. Sculpturing of integument somewhat coarser. Antennae barely the length of head and pronotum, somewhat incrassate and flattened basally. Frontal ridge thick, sulcate below medial ocellus. Fastigium of vertex parabolic, considerably longer than wide; temporal foveolae kidney-shaped, deep. Pronotal disc rugulose (Fig. 181), medial carina strongly raised, acute; metazona longer than prozona, its hind margin forming a right angle with the tip rounded; lateral carinae well developed, weakly inflexed in prozona and interrupted by the first and the main transverse sulci. Epiphallus as in Fig. 182. Coloration similar to lineaalba except for the unusual occurrence of females with dark-green dorsum, not known in other species of the genus. Upper face of hind femur immaculate brown; lower outer face yellowish; inner face and tibia light brownish. Both light and fire melanic forms occur.

Distribution.

-SOUTH AFRICA.