Arantia (Arantia) simplicinervis Karsch, 1889

Massa, Bruno, Annoyer, Philippe, Perez, Cyrille, Danflous, Samuel & Duvot, Guilhem, 2020, Orthoptera Tettigoniidae (Conocephalinae, Hexacentrinae, Phaneropterinae Mecopodinae, Hetrodinae) from some protected areas of Central African Republic, Zootaxa 4780 (3), pp. 401-447 : 421

Arantia (Arantia) simplicinervis Karsch, 1889

Material examined. CAR. Dzanga-Sangha SR, Camp , 10.X.2008 (light), P. Annoyer (1♂) ( PAPC) ; Camp 2, 20–24.X.2008, P. Annoyer (2♂) ( PAPC) ; Dzanga-Ndoki NP, Lake 1, 30.XI–1.XII.2010 (light), P. Annoyer (1♂) ; Mboki , 8.III.2012 (light), P. Annoyer (1♀) ; Lake 1, 1–4.II.2012, 12–13.II.2012, 14–15.II.2012, 20.II.2012, 23.II.2012, 27.II.2012 (light), SANGHA2012 Team (8♂, 1♀) ; Lake 3, 25–26.II.2012 (light), P. Annoyer (2♂) ( BMPC & PAPC) .

Distribution. According to Hemp & Massa (2017) A. simplicinervis is widely distributed in West, Central and South-West Africa (records from Angola, Cameroon, CAR, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Togo).

Remarks. The genus Arantia Stål, 1874 has been recently revised by Hemp & Massa (2017). Females are generally much less represented in the collections, and some characters may be observed only on fresh specimens. Among them a particular roughness in the apical part of dorsal and ventral valves of the short ovipositor should suggest that females make use of it to excavate a hole when they are laying eggs. This probably is associated with the egg laying behavior reported by Naskrecki & Guta (2019) for another species of the same genus Arantia .