Maura lurida (Fabricius, 1781)

Hemp, Claudia, 2013, Annotated list of Ensifera (Orthoptera) and further records on Caelifera (Orthoptera) of Mt Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, Zootaxa 3613 (4), pp. 301-342 : 335

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3613.4.1

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6162975

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/E40DC426-3806-FFBA-FF24-F94D9D0AFF5D

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Plazi

scientific name

Maura lurida (Fabricius, 1781)
status

 

Maura lurida (Fabricius, 1781) View in CoL

Distribution. Eritrea, Kenya, Belgian Congo, Ghana, Togo, Dahomey, Nigeria, Cameroon, Tanzania, Zanzibar (Dirsh 1965).

Recorded from Mt Kilimanjaro by Bolivar (1904) as M. venusta .

Habitat. On bushes in forest and in gardens at Fourah Bay College, Sierra Leone; one generation per year in Sierra Leone (Phipps 1970). Found in colline bush-tree savanna at the south-eastern slopes of Mt Kilimanjaro.

Remarks. The savanna type in which Maura lurida was recovered has been largely destroyed around Mt Kilimanjaro. Therefore habitat destruction is the probable reason for the scarcity of this small flightless species on Mt Kilimanjaro. Maura lurida was also found in a similar habitat, in dry bush/treeland, on the foothills of Mt Kasigau in Kenya.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Orthoptera

Family

Pyrgomorphidae

Genus

Maura

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