Pagopedilum bradyanum (Saussure, 1887)

Massa, Bruno, 2020, Remarks on some interesting African Pamphagidae and Acrididae (Insecta Orthoptera: Acridoidea), Zootaxa 4751 (1), pp. 29-54 : 33

Pagopedilum bradyanum (Saussure, 1887) (Figs. 5, 7, 11, 22, 29, 30, 31)

Material examined: 4 specimens. South Africa, Pretoria XI.1928, Cipriani (3♀); South Africa, Orange Farm II.1928 (1♂) ( MZUR) .

Remarks. Pretoria is less than 100 km from Transvaal (type locality), the locality of the male (Orange farm) is just south of Transvaal. This is the first record of a male of this species.

P. subcruciatum Karsch, 1896 is the type species of the genus Pagopedilum ; its type locality (Transvaal) is the same as that of P. bradyanum , the holotype of P. subcruciatum is lost, but the drawing of Karsch (1896) shows a high crest, more similar to that of P. brevis than to P. bradyanum (Figs. 22, 23) (see below).

Description of the male (Figs. 5, 7, 29, 30, 31). Large and granulose, antenna shorter than head and pronotum together. Fastigium of vertex above narrow, with angulate apex, in lateral view straight. Crest of pronotum thin, high and strongly curved in lateral view, not serrated in metazona, with shallow transverse sulci and three fenestrae. Tegmina wide, exceeding the end of abdomen and of hind femora by a few mm with regularly excurved leading edge and rounded apical margins, and with about 22 stridulatory veins. Hind femur moderately long, relatively stout; upper margin with short, acute teeth, lower margin shallowly serrated. Prosternal tubercle apically bilobate with some small bulges placed posteriorly. Apical valves of penis stout, narrow, and covered with many small teeth. Posterior margin of epiphallus excurved, pseudolophi placed anteriorly with few teeth. General colouration brownish-grey; on side of the pronotum, on eye level there is a whitish stripe that continues on tegmina, first straight, down folded at mid (Fig. 11). Second pair of wings vestigial.

The female of P. bradyanum (Fig. 22) has the pronotum crest low, quite curved and fenestrae are hardly visible.

Measurements. See Table 1.