Paraeumigus tricoloripes Werner, 1932

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 : 455

Paraeumigus tricoloripes Werner, 1932

Material examined. Morocco, High Atlas, Oukaimeden VII.1955, 1 ♂, 2♀ (MNCN); Oukaimeden 20. VII.1965, 3 ♂, 2♀ (MNHN); Oukaimeden 8. VIII.1976, 1 ♂ (BMCP).

Species of high altitudes of High Atlas, is characterized by low pronotum keel (similar to that of P. diversipes ), fore border of pronotum obtusely protruding, hind border straight ( Figs. 129 , 158 ). The colour of hind tibiae and femurs, considered diagnostic by La Greca (1993), is variable; in particular tibiae may be reddish-orange to yellowish. The phallic complex shows wide apical lobes of aedeagus valves; the basal part, as long as wide, shows three columnar keels per side ( Fig. 130 ).

Figures

FIGURES 123 – 148. 123 – 145. Characters of species of the Moroccan genus Paraeumigus, included P. lopezi n. sp. (141 – 145, holotype and allotype, BMCP). 146 – 148. Lateral view of Amigus nigroadspersus and its phallic complex. Figs. 124, 135 – 137, 139 – 140 after La Greca (1993).

FIGURES 149 – 160. Females of some species of the Morocco genus Paraeumigus: P. fortius syntype (149 – 150), P. sobrinus syntypes (151 – 153), P. escalerai syntype (154), P. l o pe zi n. sp. allotype (155), P. bolivari paratype (156), P. montanus (157, after Chopard 1943), P. tricoloripes (158), P. parvulus (159 – 160).