Amytta pellucida Karsch, 1888

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Distribution: Tanzania East Usambara Mountains (Karsch 1888a).

Ecology & Biology: Canopy dweller.

Habitat: Lowland evergreen forest.

Remarks: Only few specimens have been caught to present and all in or in the vicinity of the East Usambara Mountains of Tanzania. In November 2002 specimens were caught in a relictal coastal forest patch near Segera along the road between Korogwe and Muheza.

Various other Meconematinae species belonging to the genus Amytta and to probably new genera are present in the West and East Usambara Mountains which will be described successively (Hemp in prep.).