Panzia Miller, 1929

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

Panzia Miller, 1929

Panzia Miller, 1929: 68.

Type species.

- Panzia uvarovi Miller, 1929: 68, by monotypy and original designation.

Material.

-Holotype male: TANZANIA: Kalula (NHMUK).

Description.

-As for genus. Tegmen with broad, rounded tip, opaque membrane and dense reticulation; wing broadly rounded, with sparse reticulation and regularly spaced, strongly serrated transverse veinlets of dark apical fascia (Fig. 76). Integument rugose and tuberculate. Antennae shorter than combined length of head and pronotum in both sexes (Fig. 75); moderately ensiform basally. Frontal ridge narrow, deeply sulcate, with well defined, irregularly wavy margins and very narrow fastigial constriction. Fastigium triangular, rounded apically, about as long as wide. Pronotum relatively narrow, median carina strong; lateral carinae weak and irregular in prozona, indistinct in metazona. Metazona subequal to prozona, its hind margin obtuse angular. Mesosternal lobes quadrate with rounded angles.

Discussion.

-Genital structures in Panzia closely resemble those of Sumba .