Arantia (Arantia) leptocnemis Karsch, 1890

Hemp, Claudia & Massa, Bruno, 2017, Review of the African genera Arantia Stål and Goetia Karsch (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Phaneropterinae), Zootaxa 4362 (4), pp. 451-498 : 464

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scientific name	Arantia (Arantia) leptocnemis Karsch, 1890
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Arantia (Arantia) leptocnemis Karsch, 1890 View in CoL ( Figs. 12, 13 View FIGURES 12–15 , 81 View FIGURES72–84 )

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Karsch (1890). Entom. Nachricht., 16 (23): 358.

Type locality: CAMEROON. Barombi Station . Depository: MfN, Berlin. Kind of type: holotype female.

Material examined. CAMEROON. Barombi Station (1♀ holotype) . Barombi Station , Preuss (1♂) ( MfN) . ANGOLA (1♂) ( MNCN) .

Tegmina width: 7.7–9; tegmina length/width: 5.9; tegmina width/pronotum length: 1.3 ( Heller et al. 2014).

Characters. A. leptocnemis is a medium sized species (body length ♂ 30 mm, ♀ 22.8 mm). Karsch (1890) described the female and considered it related to A. orthocnemis . Later, Karsch (1891) described the male. Tegmina are narrow ( Figs 12–13 View FIGURES 12–15 ) and may have a black marking at their base. Fore femora have 4 spines, mid femora are unarmed (except for a small spine near the apex), hind femora have 5 outer and 3 inner small ventral spines. Male cerci are long, narrow and in-curved, the apex is sclerotized and rounded ( Fig. 81 View FIGURES72–84 ). Styli are present. The subgenital plate of the female is short and rounded. The species is easily distinguished by its long and slender decussate male cerci.

Distribution. Central to Southwest Africa ( Cameroon, Angola).

References

Heller, K. - G., Hemp, C., Liu, C. & Volleth, M. (2014) Taxonomic, bioacoustic and faunistic data on a collection of Tettigonioidea from Eastern Congo (Insecta: Orthoptera). Zootaxa, 3785 (3), 343 - 376. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3785.3.2

Karsch, F. (1890) Verzeichniss der von Herrn Dr. Paul Preuss auf der Barombi-Station in Deutsche-Westafrika 1890 gesammelten Locustoden aus den Familien der Phaneropteriden, Mekonemiden und Gryllakriden. Entomologische Nachrichten Berlin, 16, 353 - 369. Available from: http: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / item / 81935 # page / 367 / mode / 1 up (Accessed 5 Dec. 2017)

Karsch, F. (1891) Ubersicht der von Dr. Paul Preuss auf der Barombi-Station in Kamerun gesammelten Locustodeen. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschriftm, 36 (2), 317 - 346.

Figures

FIGURES 12–15. Habitus of Arantia (Arantia) leptocnemis (12: holotype female, 13: male), A. (Arantia) simplicinervis (14) and A.(Arantia) quinquemaculata n. sp. (holotype) (15).

FIGURES72–84.Cerci of Arantia angustipennis (72a) and original drawing of Chopard (1954) (72b), Arantia ivoriana n. sp. (dorsal and ventral view) (73a, 73b), Arantia fatidica (dorsal and lateral view) (74a, 74b), Arantia brevipes (75), Arantia dentata (76), Arantia orthocnemis (77), Arantia manca(lateral and dorsal view) (78a, 78b), Arantia gracilicercata (dorsal and lateral view) (79a, 79b), Arantia hydatinoptera (80), Arantia leptocnemis (81), Arantia simplicinervis (82), Arantia quinquemaculata n. sp. (83a, 83b), and Arantia bispinosa n. sp. (dorsal view and lateral view of left cercus) (84a, 84b).

FIGURES 12–15. Habitus of Arantia (Arantia) leptocnemis (12: holotype female, 13: male), A. (Arantia) simplicinervis (14) and A.(Arantia) quinquemaculata n. sp. (holotype) (15).