Corycomima

Hemp, Claudia, 2013, Annotated list of Ensifera (Orthoptera) and further records on Caelifera (Orthoptera) of Mt Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, Zootaxa 3613 (4), pp. 301-342 : 325

Corycomima sp.

( Fig. 12 B)

Distribution. Tanzania (Mt Kilimanjaro), Kenya (Chyulu Hills, Tana).

Habitat. Within closed forest on the lower border of montane forest on Mt Kilimanjaro.

Altitudinal range at Mt Kilimanjaro: 1710 m.

Records: 1

Remarks. At present only C. camerata Karsch is described in the genus Corycomima . However, Ragge (1980) stated that the collection of the NHML contains more, probably 3 new species. These species show characters, especially in fore wing texture and fastigium verticis fitting very well into the concept of Corycomima . However, material was too scarce to describe new species. When studying this material it became obvious that the specimen from Mt Kilimanjaro is very close to these Corycomima species but also differed considerably in some important characters. So the fastigium is different from west and central African material and thus it is doubtful whether the Kilimanjaro species belongs to the genus Corycomima . The collection of the NHML holds another female of the same species as the one from Kilimanjaro. It was collected on the Chyulu Hills (Coryndon Museum, Expedition Cyhulu Hills, July 1938, altitude 5600 feet, about 1800 m). Additionally a male was collected which also could belong to this species. The label reads “Tana” which could be the Tana River area of Kenya. More material is needed to decide on the status of this new species.

Figures

FIGURE 12. Phaneropterinae species of Kilimanjaro. A. Female Ducetia punctipennis (Gerstäcker), Chala area, savanna grasslands on herbs, 1000 m B. Female Corycomima sp., lower montane forest, southern slopes, 1710 m C – E. Lunidia viridis Hemp, lower montane forest, southern slopes, 1710 m, male (C), female (D), male nymph (E) F – I. Monticolaria kilimandjarica Sjöstedt, lower montane forest, southern slopes, 1710 m, male (F), male moulting at night (G), female (H), and male nymph (I).