Mangomaloba Sjöstedt, 1902

Massa, Bruno, 2022, On some interesting Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae and Acrididae from tropical Africa, Zootaxa 5178 (2), pp. 152-160 : 154

Genus Mangomaloba Sjöstedt, 1902

The genus Mangomaloba was described by Sjöstedt (1902) together the species monticola from Mt. Cameroon.After the description of the genus, Chopard (1954, 1958) described other three species, namely: M. royi Chopard, 1954 ( Guinea, Mt. Nimba), M. latipennis Chopard, 1954 ( Guinea, base IFAN) and M. angustipennis Chopard, 1958 ( Sao Tomé, Principe). Small differences exist between the description of the genus by Sjöstedt (1902) and the characters of the holotype of the type-species monticola ; according to Sjöstedt (1902) ‘ tibiae anticae et intermediae supra paulo sulcate et totae inermes ’ (fore and mid tibiae superiorly a little furrowed and unarmed), but both the holotype of M. monticola and that of M. angustipennis have fore and mid tibiae armed with small spines on ventral side (see photos in Orthoptera Species File online http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/HomePage/ Orthoptera /HomePage.aspx). In addition, differently from M. royi and M. monticola , the speculum of the right tegmen in M. angustipennis is small, but this may be a variable character within the genus.