Batrachotetrix cantans Saussure, 1888

Massa, Bruno, 2020, Remarks on some interesting African Pamphagidae and Acrididae (Insecta Orthoptera: Acridoidea), Zootaxa 4751 (1), pp. 29-54 : 49

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4751.1.2
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3718018
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scientific name	Batrachotetrix cantans Saussure, 1888
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Batrachotetrix cantans Saussure, 1888 View in CoL

Material examined. Namibia, Lüderitzbucht 1925 (1♂, 2♀) ( MZUH) .

Remarks. The above listed specimens are fully winged; four species belonging to this genus have tegmina longer than the abdomen: B. braini Uvarov, 1931 , B. cantans Saussure, 1888 , B. loricatus Saussure, 1884 and B. peringueyi Saussure, 1888 . All occur in South Africa and three ( B. braini , B. cantans and B. peringueyi ) in the Cape province of South Africa. It is possible to exclude that the specimen from Namibia is B. braini by its very rugose integuments; following the key of Saussure (1888) it was possible to exclude also B. loricatus , which has brachypterous females. Sulphureous hind wings are typical for B. cantans while B. peringueyi has cerulean wings; Namibian specimens have sulphureous wings. Lüderitzbucht is ca. 800 km from Prieska (the type locality of B. cantans ); no fully winged species of this genus was hitherto known from Namibia.