Lobosceliana loboscelis (Schaum, 1853)

Massa, Bruno, 2020, Remarks on some interesting African Pamphagidae and Acrididae (Insecta Orthoptera: Acridoidea), Zootaxa 4751 (1), pp. 29-54 : 44

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4751.1.2
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3718046
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scientific name	Lobosceliana loboscelis (Schaum, 1853)
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Lobosceliana loboscelis (Schaum, 1853) View in CoL

Material examined: 8 specimens. Mozambique, Laurenzo Marques (= Maputo), Delagoa Bay 1891, W. Jobst (1♂, 1 nymph); Mozambique 1903, F. Eichelbaum (1♂, 2♀); Mozambique, between Daressalam and Port Amelia II.1928 (1♂); Mozambique, Port Amelia (1♀); Botswana, Kalahari 20.IX.1974, Strümpel (1 nymph) ( ZMUH); Tanzania, Tubugwe 26.X.1926, N.C.E. Miller (1♂) ( MZUR) .

Remarks. L. loboscelis is distributed from Democratic Republic of Congo and Tanzania to South Africa ( Dirsh 1958). Willemse (1994) found one male and one female in Zambia that he considered being near to L. loboscelis , but differing in some characters. I agree with Luc Willemse that some specimens belonging to the genus Lobosceliana cannot be identified with the key of Dirsh (1958) and it is necessary to revise it.