Culmulus stramineus 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 : 41-42

Culmulus stramineus Uvarov, 1953 Figs 15, 40-44

Culmulus stramineus Uvarov, 1953: 164, figs 213-220.

Material.

-Holotype male: ANGOLA: Moxico distr., Villa Luso (NHMUK).

Description.

-As for the genus. General coloration light stramineous, somewhat darker dorsally; hind wing with base black.

Discussion.

-Superficially this species is very similar to Parga spp., but differs in the following respects: antennae of simple unmodified ensiform structure, longer than head and pronotum; integument not as deeply ridged as in Parga ; frontal ridge lamelliformly compressed in its upper third; lobes of hind knee are not enlarged; male epiphallic structures are as in Fig. 15, quite distinct from those in Parga (Fig. 34).

Measurements.

-See Table 1.

Distribution.

-ANGOLA, TANZANIA: S. of Uvinza, ZAMBIA: Mweru wa Ntipa. Adults VII–IX.