Paraeuryparyphes La Greca, 1993

Massa, Bruno, 2013, Pamphagidae (Orthoptera: Caelifera) of North Africa: key to genera and the annotated check-list of species, Zootaxa 3700 (3), pp. 435-475 : 456

Paraeuryparyphes La Greca, 1993 (type-species: Acinipe quadridentata Brisout de Barneville)

This genus, currently with only one species, Paraeuryparyphes quadridentatus (Brisout de Barneville, 1852), distributed from Morocco to Libya, is very characterized by its keeled abdomen ( Fig. 20 ).

TABLE 3. Biometrics (mean ± standard deviation) of taxa of the genus Paraeumigus . Total length has been measured from the

vertex to the apex of hind femurs. In parenthesis sample size: males/females. Taxon/sex Total length Length of Height of pronotum Length/

height of Length of hind Height of hind

pronotum pronotum

femurs femurs

♂ ♀ ♂ ♀ ♂ ♀ ♂

♀ ♂ ♀ ♂ ♀

23.7±1.5 35.7±2.0 7.1±0.4 8.8±0.6 7.2±0.4 8.9±0.5 1.0±0.01

0.99±0.01 11.5±0.6 14.2±0.1 3.9±0.1 4.7±0.1

nadigi ) 5 / 2 (

escalerai /) 10 10 (

23.6±1.3 32.8±1.9 6.5±0.4 9.9±0.8 6.1±0.4 10.4±0.7 1.0±0.03 0.95±0.01 10.6±0.7 14.4±0.9 3.6±0.5 5.0±0.2 19.7±2.1 30.1±3.0 5.4±0.7 9.5±0.9 5.4±0.6 10.0±0.7 1.0±0.04 0.95±0.03 9.1±0.3 13.4±0.8 3.3±0.4 4.7±0.5

sobrinus 10 / (10)

26.1±1.4 36.0±5.7 7.2±0.5 9.9±1.9 6.8±0.5 10.6±1.8 1.1±0.03 0.93±0.03 11.9±0.9 15.0±0.9 4.2±0.2 5.2±0.7

fortius (/ 7 5)

tricoloripes 6 (/ 5)

20.0±0.7 23.9±0.8 5.3±0.6 6.2±0.2 4.6±0.6 6.2±0.3 1.1±0.1 1.0±0.03 9.0±0.7 10.4±0.5 3.1±0.3 3.7±0.4 18.4±0.4 25.8±1.3 4.8±0.2 7.2±0.3 4.2±0.6 7.2±0.6 1.1±0.1 1.0±0.05 8.4±0.6 11.2±0.7 2.7±0.3 3.8±0.2

parvulus ) 5 9 (/

20 4.0 3.8 1.05 8.8 2.7

diversipes ) / 1 0 (

25.0±1.4 32.5±1.4 6.6±0.2 8.6±0.2 6.6±0.1 8.9±0.3 1.0±0.01 1.0±0.01 10.1±0.2 12.4±0.1 3.5±0.1 3.4±0.6

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 22. Characters of some Pamphagidae cited in the key to genera.