Chokwea backlundi Uvarov, 1953, res. comb.

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 : 46

Chokwea backlundi Uvarov, 1953, res. comb.

Chokwea backlundi Uvarov, 1953: 155,156, figs 194, 195.

Chromochokwea backlundi (Uvarov) ( Jago 1983b).

Description.

-As in keys to genera and species. Rather robustly built, brightly colored species. Antennae very slightly compressed basally, reaching posterior edge of tegmina in male, markedly shorter in female. Pronotal disc particularly characteristic, with large shallow puncturation and with lateral carinae straight and parallel in prozona and weakly divergent in metazona, more markedly so in female. General coloration brownish with more or less olivaceous-green pigmentation; legs a brighter green; tegmina reddish.

Distribution.

-TANZANIA: Ufipa plateau.