Rastafaria Ramme, 1931

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 : 69

Rastafaria Ramme, 1931

Rastafaria Ramme, 1931: 931, figs 8-18, pl. XI, fig. 9.

Type species.

- Rastafaria abessinica Ramme, 1931: 932, by original designation.

Description.

-As in the key to genera. Head pointed, somewhat inflated (Fig. 158); antennae almost twice combined length of head and pronotum in male, but only slightly longer in female. Frontal ridge rather thick, flat to weakly sulcate, markedly narrowed at junction with fastigium of vertex; latter excavate and elongate with arcuate sulcus well behind middle (Fig. 159). Pronotum sub-cylindrical, lateral carinae inflexed, weak to obsolete, but occasionally partly raised and callose, particularly in females; hind edge of pronotal disc broadly rounded to slightly emarginate (Fig. 161). Tegmina varying from slightly shorter to slightly longer than pronotal disc. Hind femora relatively slender. Male cerci elongate, tapering, but with rounded apices; supra-anal plate with medial groove extending half way to tip. Epiphallic lophi more elongate and robust than in most other members of group (Fig. 162; compare with Fig. 163). Coloration extremely variable, but characteristically with green and olivaceous pigmentation much in evidence. Female anatomy as in Figs 164, 165. Measurements (in mm); total length males 12-16, females 15-22.

Discussion.

-In re-establishing Rastafaria , Bouvy (1982) considered that it included R. abessinica and three other taxa: amplificata amplificata (Johnston, 1937) and amplificata morotoensis Jago, 1968, transferred from Gymnobothroides , and Rastafaria triangularis Bouvy, 1982, described as new. Here Rastafaria becomes a monotypic genus again.