Sumba granulifera Uvarov, 1953

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 : 50-52

Sumba granulifera Uvarov, 1953 Fig. 87

Sumba granulifera Uvarov, 1953: 134-135, figs 149, 150.

Material.

-Holotype male: ANGOLA: Villa Luso, Moxico dist. (NHMUK); 1 male, 2 females, same data as holotype; 5 females, Luchase dist.: river Lungue Bungu and river Quangu.

Description.

-As in Key 1. Antennae rather wide at base and slightly shorter than combined length of head and pronotum in both sexes. Frontal ridge rather narrow, weakly expanded between antennae, fastigial constriction narrow. Fastigium as in Fig. 87, its medial carinula weak. Pronotum and head granulate, but metazona longitudinally rugulose. Medial carina sharp, lateral carinae irregular in prozona, obsolescent in metazona. Tegmina broad, with very dense reticulation. Wings broad, with three anterior sectors produced and rounded apically. Genital structures of typical Sumba type, without specialized features. General coloration reddish-ochraceous to brownish. Antennae blackish. In some female specimens abdominal tergites have alternating broad dark and narrow light bands. Wings bright rose (ANGOLA) to vermilion (D.R. CONGO: Katanga), lightly infumate apically. Some specimens from burnt areas are dark brown with brighter colored wings Table 4 gives morphometric data for granulifera .

Discussion.

-Similar morphologically to Panzia uvarovi Miller but lacking specialized venation of latter. Generally larger and more robust than other Sumba species and distinctive in the peculiar granular sculpturing of its integument and the dense reticulation of the tegmina.

Distribution.

-D.R. CONGO: Katanga, ANGOLA, ZAMBIA: Mbala, Kafue river at Chingola and Kabundi forest at Chingola. The habitat was given as grassland, some burnt, and Brachystegia - Isoberlinia woodland ( Johnsen 1984).