Africalolampra ehrmanni Roth, 1995

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Africalolampra ehrmanni Roth, 1995

Fig. 10

Africalolampra ehrmanni Roth, 1995: 89 .

Material examined

Holotype

KENYA • ♂; Shima la Tewa , ca 25 km N of Mombasa; 13 Apr.–4 Jul. 1987; R. Ehrmann leg.; MCZENT 00034788 [pictures only].

Differential diagnosis

Type species of the genus Africalolampra , it is described with several drawings from five males and one female from the same locality ( Roth 1995). Note, howewer, that we were unable to examine the series of specimens and that the MCZ curators reported six male and no female specimens. We here complement the drawings in Roth (1995) with a few pictures obtained from MCZ ( Fig. 10 ). The pronotal and head pattern coloration ( Fig. 10A–B ), as well as the shape of the tergal specialization, allows one to readily differentiate A. ehrmanni from its conspecifics.

Habitat

“The original specimens were collected in dense undergrowth in a damp Galeria woods” ( Roth 1995).

Distribution

This species is only known from its type locality in Kenya ( Fig. 1 ).

Figures

Fig. 10. Africalolampra ehrmanni Roth, 1995, holotype, ♂ (MCZ-ENT00034788). A. Habitus in dorsal and ventral views. B. Head. C. Subgenital plate, ventral view. D. Front femur (type B2) with the most distal spine distinctly serrated. E. Labels. Photographed by Charles Whittemore Farnum, made available by the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University; ©President and Fellows of Harvard College, CC-BY 4.0. Scale bars: A = 5 mm; B–D = 1 mm.

Fig. 1. Distribution of African species of Rhabdoblatta Kirby, 1903 and Africalolampra Roth, 1995, including the new species described (indicated with a star). ‘?’ is used when countries with no exact locality were provided in the literature. Details of localities are provided in the main text.