Rhabdoplea angusticornis 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 : 52

Rhabdoplea angusticornis Uvarov, 1953

Rhabdoplea angusticornis Uvarov, 1953: 139, figs 166-168.

Material.

-Holotype female: ANGOLA: Moxico and Bihe distr., Upper Luena River (NHMUK).

Description.

-Differs from R. munda in narrower, longer antennae and in shorter metazona of pronotum with a straighter hind margin (for further details see under munda ). Coloration as in the brachypterous form of munda . Micropterous. Table 5 gives morphometric data for R. angusticornis .

Discussion.

-Nothing published on its bionomics, but likely to be similar to R. munda .

Distribution.

-ANGOLA, CONGO REP. ( Descamps and Donskoff 1968), RWANDA ( Dirsh 1970), ZAMBIA ( Johnsen 1984).