Parodontomelus stoltzei (Johnsen, 1983)

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 : 44-45

Parodontomelus stoltzei (Johnsen, 1983) Fig. 62

Chokwea stoltzei Johnsen, 1983: 53-55, figs 5, 6a-l.

Parodontomelus stoltzei (Johnsen, 1990).

Material.

-Holotype male stoltzei : TANZANIA: Uluguru mts., Kimboza forest, 18.VII.1981 Stoltze and Scharff (ZMUC).

Description.

-As in key above. Other diagnostic features include the following: antennae brownish to brownish black; exceptionally long. General coloration striking and variable; predominantly buff-pale brownish, with a contrasting dark lateral band extending from antennal sockets across genae to upper edge of lateral pronotal lobe, sometimes invading hind part of metazona of disc, then upper part of pleura and to lower side of tegmen and tapering along side of abdominal tergites. Hind knee and most of hind tibia black, hind tarsus pale brownish. Upper area of tegmen and external and internal lower areas of hind femur sometimes reddish. Large size distinctive (see measurements in Johnsen 1983).

Distribution.

-E. TANZANIA: Uluguru Mts.