Bullacris Roberts 1941
Creators: name: Gordon, Mikhaila L.
name: Colville, Jonathan F.
name: Engelbrecht, Adriaan
name: Couldridge, Vanessa C. K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Pneumoridae
Bullacris

description: Dichotomous Key to Bullacris Species
Males
1 (2) Antennae slightly club-like widened at apical part (Fig. 12 A). Supra-anal plate comparatively short and widely angular (Fig. 17).......................................................................................... unicolor
2 Antennae filiform (Fig. 12 B). Supra-anal plate comparatively long and narrow, angular............................. 1
3 Pronotum in profile highly accurate...................................................................... 6
4 (5) Pronotum in profile regularly accurate. Third episternum with brown patch and third abdominal tergite with 6–9 stridulatory ridges. Size smaller (42–52 mm) (Fig. 28)......................................................... intermedia
5 (4) Arc of pronotum, in profile, lower in prozona. Third episternum without brown patch and third abdominal tergite with 9 stridulatory ridges. Size larger (45–58 mm) (Fig. 30).............................................. membracioides
6 (3) Pronotum in profile low arcuate. Elytra each with white spot. Third abdominal tergite with 8 stridulatory ridges (Fig. 15)............................................................................................. boschimana
7 Pronotum in profile regularly arcuate. Third abdominal tergite with 9–10 stridulatory ridges........................ 10
8 (9) Pronotum without callosities. Veinlets of reticulation of elytra is the same colour as membrane. Sides of abdomen with ocellate pattern or uniform (Fig. 23)........................................................................ discolor
9 (8) Pronotum with whitish callosities. Veinlets of reticulation of elytra darkened. Sides of abdomen with ocellate and marble pattern (Fig. 26)................................................................................. serrata
10 (8) Arc of pronotum in profile lower in prozona. Third abdominal tergite with 13 stridulatory ridges. Size smaller (41–46 mm) (Fig. 20)........................................................................................... obliqua
Females
1 Arc of pronotum in profile comparatively high........................... …………………………………………… 4
2 (3) Smaller size (42 mm) (Fig. 29).................................................................. intermedia
3 (2) Larger size (51–60 mm) (Fig. 31)............................................................. membracioides
4 Arc of pronotum in profile comparatively low.............................................................. 1
5 (6) Pronotum narrow, slender (Fig. 18)................................................................. unicolor
6 Pronotum comparatively wide, robust..................................................................... 5
7 (8) Pronotum without dorsal callosities or with only traces of them (Fig. 24)................................... discolor
8 (7) Pronotum with dorsal callosities forming oblique whitish stripes............................................... 7
9 (10) Dorsum of pronotum with convex sides and comparatively low obtuse median carina (Fig. 27).................. serrata
10 Dorsum of pronotum with slightly concave sides and sharp median carina........................................ 9
11 (12) General colouration, greenish. Sides of abdomen with four rows of small whitish, oblique spots (Fig. 21).......... obliqua
12 (11) General colouration, pale brownish or green. Side of abdomen with two rows of large whitish spots or irregular form or uniform in colour (Fig. 16)........................................................................... boschimana
description: Published as part of Gordon, Mikhaila L., Colville, Jonathan F., Engelbrecht, Adriaan & Couldridge, Vanessa C. K., 2024, Ancient Grasshoppers: A revision of the genus Bullacris (Orthoptera: Pneumoridae), pp. 301-354 in Zootaxa 5474 (4) on pages 328-329, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5474.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/12681191