Malcolmburria Uvarov, 1953

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 : 80

Malcolmburria Uvarov, 1953

Malcolmburria Uvarov, 1953: 130.

Type species.

- Malcolmburria angolensis Uvarov, 1953: 130-132, figs 141-144, by original designation.

Description.

-Size below medium; total length: male 13-14 mm, female 18-20 mm. Head acute apically (Fig. 312), ascending above level of pronotum; frontal ridge very narrow apically, evenly widening towards clypeus. Fastigium of vertex (Fig. 313) triangular, concave, with widely arched transverse sulcus, margins raised, overhanging compound eyes; foveolae vertical, broad, their surface coarsely and irregularly pitted. Pronotum saddle-shaped with strongly raised, laminate medial carina (Fig. 314), deeply notched by typical sulcus; lateral carinae narrow, interrupted by all three sulci, excurved and partly obsolescent in metazona. Tegmina narrow with dense venation and weak to obsolescent intercalary vein in medial area. Epiphallus with incurving, apically pointed, digitiform lophi typical of the Gymnobothrus genus group. Coloration marbled in cryptic shades of chestnut to light-brown and stramineous with charcoal-black and slate grey maculation, but details of pattern variable. Antennae dark basally and apically, paler in middle or, as in most females, barely darkened apically. Hind femur slate-grey-brown basally, charcoal-black apically, corresponding part of hind tibia similarly dark. In some specimens outer face of hind femur is stramineous with a faint dark stripe and only the genicular crescent black. Tegmina clear in apical part and with 4-5 evenly spaced large dark spots in basal half. Hind wing with remigium infumate and vannus light yellowish or pinkish.

Discussion.

-Monotypic genus originally described from ANGOLA. A distinctive genus superficially resembling the oedipodine genus Calephorus , but readily distinguished from it. Fire melanism evident; its color always provides protective crypsis.