Coryphosima vumbaensis (Miller, 1949)

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 : 68

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jor.28.29312

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scientific name

Coryphosima vumbaensis (Miller, 1949)
status

 

Coryphosima vumbaensis (Miller, 1949) View in CoL Figs 140, 141

Paracomacris vumbaensis Miller, 1949.

Material.

-Known only from the type series. ZIMBABWE: Vumba Mts., 1520 m.

Description.

-As in the key. Size and build similar to C. abyssinica . Fastigium of vertex broadly parabolic, as wide as long (Fig. 140). Lateral pronotal carinae absolutely straight and evenly divergent caudad (Fig. 141); metazona subequal to prozona. Costal field of tegmen not surpassing middle of anterior border. Coloration in shades of brown, paler and less contrasting than in other species.

Distribution.

-ZIMBABWE.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Orthoptera

Family

Acrididae

Genus

Coryphosima