Paralobopoma Rehn, 1914

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 : 46-47

Paralobopoma Rehn, 1914 Figs 16, 52-56

Paralobopoma Rehn 1914: 73.

Type species.

- Paralobopoma bugoiensis Rehn, 1914: 73, by original designation.

Description.

-As in key to genera (pp. 45). Close to Parodontomelus and Afrophlaeoba , but of somewhat more robust build, with shorter head and broader disc of pronotum, less than twice as long as wide. Antennae narrowly ensiform longer than head and pronotum together. Frontal ridge shallowly sulcate with obtuse carinulae. Fastigium of vertex elongate-parabolic with weak carinula and transverse sulcus just ahead of anterior edge of compound eyes. Pronotum weakly tectiform, median carina distinct; lateral carinae weaker, straight, parallel or weakly divergent and largely obliterated in metazona. Metazona about 1/3 length of prozona, its hind margin broadly emarginate. Tegmina reduced to narrow strap-like scales, their tips about level with hind margin of second abdominal tergite. Ovipositor unspecialized; male subgenital plate as in Parodontomelus . Hind femora with rounded genicular lobes. Coloration as a rule includes some green pigmentation, brighter in male. Color green or brown with a yellow marginal pronotal band, and often with a broad dark lateral stripe along upper margin of lateral pronotal lobes.

Discussion.

-In his revision of the genus, Jago (1983b) recognized four species. All species of the genus are found in or around the Western (Albertine) Rift Valley. P. sjostedti Ramme, 1931 was described from an unspecified locality in N.W. Tanzania, and is also known from extreme eastern D.R. Congo (Mt. Kabuzi, W. shore of Lake Kivu). P. viridifrons Jago, 1983 is widely distributed in W. Uganda . These are the only species of the genus known to occur in East Africa as it is politically defined. The other species are from eastern D.R. Congo or Rwanda. Jago (1983b) gives keys to all species. The genus is now in need of a further revision.