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

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.

Figures

FIGURES 8–11. Habitus of Arantia (Arantia) orthocnemis (syntype) (8), A. (Arantia) manca (holotype) (9), A. (Arantia) gracilicercata (holotype) (10) and A. (Arantia) hydatinoptera (syntype) (11).

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).