Parapyrrhicia acutilobata Ragge, 1980

Hemp, Claudia, Heller, Klaus-Gerhard, Warchałowska-Śliwa, Elżbieta, Grzywacz, Beata & Hemp, Andreas, 2017, Review of the East African species of the phaneropterine genus Parapyrrhicia Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1891 (Insecta: Orthoptera): secret communication of a forest-bound taxon, Organisms Diversity & Evolution (New York, N. Y.) 17 (1), pp. 231-250 : 234

Parapyrrhicia acutilobata Ragge, 1980

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P. acutilobata is a typical Parapyrrhicia species, predominantly green with numerous reddish dots on the body and legs, males with dark patch with white center on stridulatory area of left tegmen ( Fig. 4a ). The male cerci are laterally expanded and hatchet-shaped ( Figs. 5a and 6a ). The subgenital plate is deeply lobed but the lobes are comparatively short and not expanded and not attached to each for several millimeters as in most other species ( Fig. 5b ). Stridulatory areas as in Fig. 5c , right tegmen with mirror as in Fig. 5d . Stridulatory file as in Fig. 5e , with 86 teeth (n = 1). Females wear one to two serrated transverse-oriented veins on the inner margin of the right tegmen used in acoustical communication with males similar as shown in P. abdita n. sp. With long and slightly up-curved ovipositor, heavily serrated at posterior end ( Fig. 7c ), but with finer teeth as in P. zanzibarica ( Fig. 7a ). Subgenital plate broad, deeply v-shaped at posterior margin ( Fig. 7d ) in difference to P. zanzibarica which has a broad shield-like subgenital plate ( Fig. 7b ).

Additional localities to those given in Ragge (1980): lowland forest, Kazimzumbwi forest, Kisarawe near Dar es Salaam, 6 males, 11 females February, July, and October 2015, January and March 2016 .

Habitat. Coastal and lowland wet forest.

Biology. Probably present throughout the year.

Distribution. Coastal Kenya and Tanzania, between Mombasa in Kenya and Mtwara in Tanzania.

Figures

Fig. 4 Habitus photos of Parapyrrhicia species. a Male and b female of P. acutilobata. c Male and d female of P. diamantina n. sp. e Male and f female of P. abdita n. sp.

Fig. 5 Morphological details of male Parapyrrhicia acutilobata. a Lateral view of abdominal apex. b Subgenital plate. c Left tegmen with stridulatory area. d Right tegmen with mirror. e Stridulatory file

Fig. 6 Apices of alive male Parapyrrhicia species. a P. acutilobata. b P. diamantina n. sp. c P. abdita n. sp.

Fig. 7 Morphological details of Parapyrrhicia females. a, b P. zanzibarica, ovipositor lateral and subgenital plate. c, d P. acutilobata, ovipositor lateral and subgenital plate. e, f P. diamantina n. sp., ovipositor and subgenital plate. g, h P. abdita n. sp., ovipositor lateral and subgenital plate