Spalacomimus verruciferus ( Karsch, 1887 )

Heller, Klaus-Gerhard, Chobanov, Dragan, Warchałowska-Śliwa, Elżbieta & Hemp, Claudia, 2022, Review of song patterns and sound production in armoured ground crickets (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Hetrodini) with karyological data and taxonomic notes, Zootaxa 5120 (4), pp. 451-481 : 474-475

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5120.4.1

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6401904

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Spalacomimus verruciferus ( Karsch, 1887 )
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Spalacomimus verruciferus ( Karsch, 1887) View in CoL

Material examined: all TANZANIA, all Kilimanjaro Region: 2 males [ CH 7188 (SR, SF), CH 7189 (SR)], Mt Kilimanjaro, near Lake Chala (3°18’S, 37°41’E), January / February 2009, leg. C. Hemp; 1 male GoogleMaps [CH7637 (SR, SF)], TANZANIA, Mt Kilimanjaro eastern slopes, March 2013, leg. C. Hemp; 5 males [ CH 7897 (SF), CH 7904 (SR), CH 7905 (SR), CH 7906], Eastern Arc Mountains, Lembeni, North Pare , 17 xii 2014, leg. C. Hemp; 1 male ( TI) , Lake Chala, Mt Kilimanjaro eastern slopes, September 2015, leg. C. Hemp; 1 male (SR) , South Pare Mts, Mt. Vumari , November 2021, leg. C. Hemp.

References: Hemp 2021

Bioacoustics. The species is bioacoustically quite similar to S. stettinensis View in CoL . The echemes seem to be shorter by a factor of two (only 19 syllables per echeme) and the echeme repetition rate is correspondingly faster ( Fig. 10H View FIGURE 10 ; see Table 2 View TABLE 2 ).

Genitalia. In size, the genitalic sclerites ( Fig. 11E View FIGURE 11 ) are similar to that of S. stettinensis View in CoL and S. talpa View in CoL . The main part of the titillator, however, is not broad, but triangular and the lateral sclerites are intermediate between the other two species in size.

Chromosomes: 2n = 24 (22 + neo-XY), FN = 25; pairs 1–11 acrocentric, neo-X submetacentric and neo-Y acrocentric [one male: CH 7897 and three males described earlier ( Warchałowska et al. 2015: CH 7188, CH 7189, CH 7637)]; thin C-positive paracentromeric bands in all autosomes, thick on both the neo-X and the neo-Y, as well as an interstitial one on the long pair ( Fig. 12J View FIGURE 12 ) .

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Herbarium of the Department of Botany, University of Tokyo

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