Sumba rubripes Descamps & Donskoff, 1968

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 : 49

Sumba rubripes Descamps & Donskoff, 1968

Sumba rubripes Descamps & Donskoff, 1968: 1225-8, figs 29-36.

Material.

-Holotype male, allotype female: CONGO REP., Brazzaville (MNHN, Paris). Paratypes 3 males, 3 females, CONGO REP., Brazzaville; Odzala (MNHN, but donated to NHMUK).

Description.

-As outlined in Key 2; differs from S. roseipennis in its longer and narrower antennae and different coloration. Males usually with a yellow medial dorsal band extending from fastigium to tip of tegmina; head and thorax greenish or brownish, underside yellow. Anterior and middle legs greenish, hind legs red, hind knee with some black; hind wings yellow, or rose at base, infumate apically. Some of the long paratype series are all black, presumably a result of fire melanism.

Females: coloration similar, but hind legs yellow. Table 4 gives morphometric data for rubripes .

Discussion.

-Closely similar to S. roseipennis . Apparently restricted to the Congo Republic.

Distribution.

-Known only from the original type material.