Bullacris boschimana Péringuey, 1916

Gordon, Mikhaila L., Colville, Jonathan F., Engelbrecht, Adriaan & Couldridge, Vanessa C. K., 2024, Ancient Grasshoppers: A revision of the genus Bullacris (Orthoptera: Pneumoridae), Zootaxa 5474 (4), pp. 301-354 : 313

Bullacris boschimana Péringuey, 1916

Fig. 9 & 15

Type. Male

Material examined. Holotype: TMOR –105 (pinned); TMOR –154; TMOR –155, South West Africa : Namibia, Rosh Pinah , 11.1970, (coll. J. Botha). All three male pinned specimens are housed at Ditsong National Museum of Natural History in Pretoria, South Africa (Museum ID numbers: TMOR –105, TMOR –154 and TMOR –155). 04.06.1974, ♂ (coll. A. P. H. Maritz) ; 07.1974, ♂ (coll. J. Botha). These two pinned specimens are stored at the ARC Plant Protection Research Institute in Pretoria , South Africa ( Fig. 9 & 15 ) .

Description. Large in size (mean body length = 49.41 mm) ( Fig. 15 ). The integument of the head and thorax is rugulose and granulose.

Colour. The colouration in Fig. 9 & 15 is the result of the specimen aging. General colouration is a uniform green. The median carina of the pronotum is slightly yellow, and the posterior margin of the lateral lobe is whitish. There is a white spot on each transparent tegmina.

Head. Antennae are filiform with 18–20 segments. The fastigial furrow is faint and the pronotum profile is moderately arcuate, with slight depressions between the metazona and prozona areas.

Abdomen. The abdomen is smooth and robust. Relatively small granulose head, with a slightly convex face. The third abdominal tergum possesses 9–10 stridulatory ridges.

Thorax. The pronotum is divided by the longitudinal median carina with transverse wrinkled furrows (sulci).

Legs. Weak hind-legs, with the tibia slightly tuberculate, together with a long and narrow femur.

Genetalia. The supra-anal plate is narrow and angular, with the sub-genital plate being short and angular with an incised apex.

Wings. Elytra and wings exceed the end of the abdomen.

Figures

FIGURE 9: Bullacris boschimana male, collected in Rosh Pinah, Namibia (1974).

FIGURE 15: Bullacris boschimana male showing; (A): full image of specimen, (B): dorsal view of the pronotum, (C): end of abdomen side view, (D): front view of head, (E): stridulatory ridges, (F): acoustic call from the Richtersveld and (G): a live image of the species (Image and sound recording by: Piotr Naskrecki).