Brachybothrus phyllopterus, Popov †, George B., Fishpool, Lincoln D. C. & Rowell, C. Hugh F., 2019

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 : 79

Brachybothrus phyllopterus sp. n. Figs 297-303

Material.

-Holotype male: SOMALIA: 5 km S. of Dinsor, 31.VII.1981, broad-leaf bush and Acacia on red sand. All paratypes: 3 males, 1 female, same data as holotype; 5 males, 6 females, 5 km S. of Bardera, 30.VII.1981, thorn scrub and loose stones on silt, Ritchie (NHMUK).

Description.

-As in key and generic description. Coloration speckled in shades of fawn, brown and blackish-brown. Dorsally, an ochraceous stripe of varying width runs from fastigium to tip of abdomen. This is flanked by a broader subdorsal, contrasting dark-brown band extending from antennal sockets across postocular area and upper pronotal lobes to anal areas of tegmina, and contrasts with pale-ivory of lower cheeks and large spot in lower part of lateral pronotal lobe. Underside pale fawn. Outer face of hind femur fawn, upper ferruginous, with two brown transverse bands; hind knee and adjacent basal part of tibia blackish-brown, outlined by pale sub-basal rings; rest of tibia and lower area of femur slate-grey. Coloration of females more uniform in less contrasting shades of ferruginous-brown. Some specimens have large dark spots in metazona and upper face of hind femur.

Measurements.

-See Table 10.

Discussion.

-As under genus; marked terricole mode of life.

Distribution.

-SOMALIA.