Coryphosima abyssinica (Uvarov, 1934)

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 : 68

Coryphosima abyssinica (Uvarov, 1934) res. stat Figs 142, 143

Paracomacris abyssinica Uvarov, 1934: 601.

Coryphosima abyssinica (Uvarov, 1934) (syn. Dirsh 1958).

Material.

-ETHIOPIA: Wouramboulchi, near Djem Djem, ca. 3000 m Arusi/Bale Prov. Shashamene-Goba road, 2610 m short turf/bush heath. Chillalo, moorland 3000 m SOUTH SUDAN: Imatong Mts.

Description.

-As in the key. In size similar to, or slightly larger than, C. elgonensis but more slender. Antennae slender, exceeding length of head and pronotum in male. Fastigium of vertex (Fig. 142), parabolic, distinctly longer than wide. Pronotal disc (Fig. l43); metazona subequal in length to prozona, but proportionately longer than in other brachypterous species. General coloration mottled in shades of predominantly darker browns without admixture of green pigmentation; dark lateral band occurs predominantly in males.

Discussion.

-South Sudan series are darker, with a more deeply sulcate frontal ridge, and a smoother surface of fastigium of vertex than Ethiopian material. Subspecific status is, however, not warranted. Dirsh (1966) synonymized abyssinica with elgonensis , but this has been widely ignored by subsequent authors ( Johnston 1968, Otte 1995, Cigliano et al. 2018) and it is here formally restored from synonymy.

Distribution.

-ETHIOPIA, SOUTH SUDAN. Montane species, probably terri-graminicole. Adults X, XI and II.