Arantia (Arantia) manca Bolívar, 1906

Hemp, Claudia & Massa, Bruno, 2017, Review of the African genera Arantia Stål and Goetia Karsch (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Phaneropterinae), Zootaxa 4362 (4), pp. 451-498 : 463

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Arantia (Arantia) manca Bolívar, 1906 ( Figs. 9, 78a, b)

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Bolívar (1906). Mem. Soc. espan. Hist. nat., 1: 332.

Type locality: CAMEROON. Depository : MNCN, Madrid. Kind of type: lectotype male.

Material examined. CAMEROON. L. Conradt (♂ lectotype) ( MNCN). DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO . Kisantu (2♂). ANGOLA . Kabinda (1♂) ( RBINS).

Tegmina width: 7; tegmina width/pronotum length: 1.2 ( Heller et al. 2014).

Characters. A. manca is a small sized species described on one male only. This species has narrow tegmina with a black spot at the base ( Fig. 9). Hind tibiae are straight. Styli on the male subgenital plate are absent. Male cerci are short and in-curved and have an inner basal back-curved spine; from the spine to the upper cerci apex a brown chitinous ridge is present ( Figs 78a, 78b).

Distribution. Bolívar (1906) wrote in the introduction of his paper that he was going to include not only specimens coming from Spanish Guinea, but also further specimens from the same geographic region (e.g. Cameroon). However, he did not mention any exact locality for Arantia manca . The specimen in the collection of MNCN, identified as Arantia manca by Bolívar, is labeled: Kamerun, L. Conradt, 1898–1899. This specimen was mentioned as holotype by Ragge (1968a), but according to the ICZN, must be considered as lectotype ( Paris 1994). Known from Cameroon and recorded from Ghana by Naskrecki (2009), here newly reported from Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

References

Bolivar I. (1906), Mem. Soc. espan. Hist. nat. 1: 330.

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

Naskrecki, P. (2009) A Survey of Katydids (Insecta: Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) of Ajenjua Bepo and Mamang River Forest Reserves, Eastern Region of Ghana. In: A Rapid Biological Assessment of Ajenjua Bepo and Mamang River Forest Reserves, Ghana. RAP Bulletin Biological Assessment, Conservation International, 2009, pp. 34 - 39. Available from: http: // www. bioone. org / doi / book / 10.1896 / 978 - 1 - 934151 - 26 - 6 (Accessed 5 Dec. 2017)

Paris, M. (1994) Catalogo de tipos de Ortopteroides (Insecta) de Ignacio Bolivar, I: Blattaria, Mantodea, Phasmoptera y Orthoptera (Stenopelmatoidea, Raphidophoroidea, Tettigonioidea, Grylloidea, Tetrigoidea). Eos, 69 (1993), 143 - 264.

Ragge, D. R. (1968 a) An index-catalogue of African Phaneropterinae (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology, 22 (3), 75 - 108. Available from: http: // www. archive. org / details / bulletinofbritis 22 entolond (Accessed 5 Dec. 2017)