Arantia (Euarantia) mauritiana Saussure, 1899

Hemp, Claudia & Massa, Bruno, 2017, Review of the African genera Arantia Stål and Goetia Karsch (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Phaneropterinae), Zootaxa 4362 (4), pp. 451-498 : 481

Arantia (Euarantia) mauritiana Saussure, 1899 ( Figs. 31 , 94 )

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Saussure (1899). Abh. Senckenb. Natforsch. Ges., 21: 615.

Type locality: MAURITIUS. Depository : MHNG, Geneva. Kind of type: holotype male.

Tegmina width: 19; tegmina width/pronotum length: 2.2 ( Heller et al. 2014).

Characters. Species of medium size (body length ♂ 31 mm). Saussure (1899) described the male from Mauritius. Conspicuous is the black wrinkled and up-lifted posterior margin of the pronotum ( Fig. 31 ). Also part of the lateral lobes are black. The male cerci are straight. The apical part of the cerci is laterally flattened, the tip incurved wearing a single sclerotized spine ( Fig. 94 ).

Distribution. Known only from the island Mauritius in the Indian Ocean.

Figures

FIGURES 30–33. Habitus of Arantia (Euarantia) melanota (holotype) (30), A. (Euarantia) mauritiana (holotype) (31), A. (Euarantia)retinervis (syntype) (32) and A.(Euarantia) bispinosa n. sp. (holotype) (33).

FIGURES 85–95. Cerci of Arantia fasciata from South Africa (85a) and Tanzania (85b), Arantia regina (86, 87), Arantia rectifolia (dorsal and lateral view) (88a, 88b), Arantia incerata (lateral and dorsal view) (89a, 89b), Arantia latifolia (90), Arantia marmorata (91), Arantia congensis (92), Arantia melanota (93a, 93b), Arantia mauritiana (94) and Arantia retinervis (95a, 95b).