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Pteropera augustini Donskoff 1981

  • 1. Zoology Unit, Laboratory of Biology and Physiology of Animal Organisms, Graduate School in Fundamental and Applied Sciences, University of Douala, Douala, Cameroon & Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
  • 2. University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
  • 3. Zoology Unit, Laboratory of Biology and Physiology of Animal Organisms, Graduate School in Fundamental and Applied Sciences, University of Douala, Douala, Cameroon
  • 4. Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany & School of Plant Sciences, College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Haramaya University, Dire Dawa, Ethiopia
  • 5. Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany

Description

Pteropera augustini Donskoff, 1981

Figs 2 A, B, 7 A, B

Pteropera augustini Donskoff, 1981: 51–52.

Type materials examined.

Holotype • ♂; Gabon. Near Youmi, in forest habitat; 0 ° 24.617 ' N, 9 ° 26.200 ' E; 11 Jun. 1974; M. Donskoff & J. Le Breton leg.; MNHN, MNHN - EO-CAELIF 11462.

Other material examined.

Cameroon • 1 ♀, subadult; Somalomo, in the Dja Biosphere Reserve, cocoa farm; 3 ° 23.650 ' N, 12 ° 53.583 ' E, 606 m a. s. l.; 11 Apr. 2022; J. A. Yetchom Fondjo leg.; SMNK.

Morphological characteristics.

Two subocellar facial spots; posterior margin of the pronotum slightly indented; no marked difference between the upper half and lower half of the elytra; shiny black line along the lower margin; metathoracic episternites almost entirely pale; outer area of the hind femora green with pale spots, widely spread on the upper carina, median spot rounded, small, basal spot triangular; lower basal half of the inner area greenish-brown, pale spot rounded and small; only the lower inner area brownish; hind tibiae green.

Female subgenital plate pentagonal; egg-guide short; anterior apodemes narrow, short; medio-dorsal pocket narrow; basivalvar sclerites broad, slightly fused, almost perpendicular to each other; end of the copulatory bursa enlarged in the shape of a bubble; spermatheca ampulla arched, both diverticula of different diameters; recurrent distal trunk of the lateral diverticulum 4–5 × longer than the proximal trunk.

Remarks.

This species is known by both males and females. The last female subadult stage was collected during this study and represents the first signalization of this species in Cameroon.

Distribution.

Gabon; Cameroon (Fig. 16 A).

Notes

Published as part of Yetchom Fondjo, Jeanne Agrippine, Nzoko Fiemapong, Armand Richard, Tindo, Maurice, Duressa, Tarekegn Fite, Ivković, Slobodan & Husemann, Martin, 2024, Taxonomic review of the grasshopper genus Pteropera Karsch, 1891 (Orthoptera, Acrididea, Catantopinae) with description of three new species and a preliminary phylogeny of the Cameroonian species, pp. 219-264 in ZooKeys 1216 on pages 219-264, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1216.130270

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
MNHN , SMNK
Material sample ID
EO-CAELIF 11462
Event date
1974-06-11 , 2022-04-11
Verbatim event date
1974-06-11 , 2022-04-11
Scientific name authorship
Donskoff
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Orthoptera
Family
Acrididae
Genus
Pteropera
Species
augustini
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Pteropera augustini Donskoff, 1981 sec. Fondjo, Fiemapong, Tindo, Duressa, Ivković & Husemann, 2024

References

  • Donskoff M (1981) Les acridiens de la foret africaine. I. Revision du genre Pteropera Karsch, 1891 (Orthoptera, Acrididae). Annales de la Societe entomologique de France (N. S.) 17 (1): 33 - 88. [51 figs] https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 21686351.1981. 12278263