Arantia (Euarantia) ugandana Rehn, 1914

Hemp, Claudia & Massa, Bruno, 2017, Review of the African genera Arantia Stål and Goetia Karsch (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Phaneropterinae), Zootaxa 4362 (4), pp. 451-498 : 470

Arantia (Euarantia) ugandana Rehn, 1914

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Rehn (1914). Wiss. Ergebn. dtsch. Zent. Afr. Exped. 1907–1908, 5: 176.

Type locality: UGANDA. Depository: according to OSF it should be preserved at Senckenberg German Entomological Institute, Müncheberg, but it is not present in their catalogues (M. Ohl, pers. comm.). Kind of type: holotype female.

Tegmina width: 14; tegmina width/pronotum length: 2.3 ( Heller et al. 2014).

It is a small sized species (body length ♀ 26.5 mm, tegmina 67.5 mm). Rehn (1914) described only the female from Uganda.

Characters. According to Rehn (1914) it is related to A. spinulosa , lacking one of the outer spines ventrally on the hind femora. It is clearly smaller in size, the margin of the tegmina lacks any concavity, lateral lobes of pronotum are a bit concave, lower margin sinuous.

Remarks. As mentioned in the introduction, the status of A. ugandana is unclear since the holotype is missing. Specimens identified as A. ugandana in the Natural History Museum, London, belong to the A. fasciata complex. Therefore we here synonymize A. ugandana with A. fasciata .