Guichardippus Dirsh, 1959

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 : 79

Guichardippus Dirsh, 1959

Guichardippus Dirsh, 1959: 37.

Type species.

- Guichardippus somalicus Dirsh, 1959: 38, fig. 8, by original designation.

Description.

-As in the key to genera. Structure of antennae and dorsum of pronotum particularly diagnostic. Antennae shorter than head and pronotum in both sexes; in male basally compressed and apically incrassate. Frontal ridge oblique, narrowly sulcate with raised margins. Fastigium of vertex elongate-parabolic, deeply concave with raised carinulae, transverse sulcus well behind middle; fastigial foveolae crescent-shaped, with rough surface. Pronotum elongate with deep transverse sulci, medial carina sharp, lateral disrupted, converging towards middle in an X pattern, raised in front of first sulcus and behind typical, obliterate in middle; metazona slightly more than half length of prozona its hind margin obtuse-angular, broadly rounded. Genital structures characteristic of genus group. Coloration mottled in cryptic shades of browns and greys without distinctive bright pigmentation.

Discussion.

-A distinctive monotypic Somali endemic genus, with somalicus Dirsh, 1959 as its unique species.