Annotated list of Tettigoniidae (Orthoptera) from the East Usambara Mountains Tanzania and new Tettigoniidae species from East Africa
Author
Hemp, Claudia
text
Zootaxa
2013
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.3737.4.1
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Phlugidia usambarica
Hemp, 2002
(
Fig. 17
)
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Distribution:
Tanzania
, East Usambara Mountains.
Ecology & Biology:
see Hemp (2002); Hemp (2013b). A frequent species from November to about March along the Zigi Trail at about
450 m
a.s.l. in the East Usambaras where it prefers broad leafs. The song of
P. usambarica
is in the ultrasonic range and thus not perceivable to the unaided human ear. Individuals of this species were recorded between elevations of 450 to over
1000 m
in the East Usambara Mountains. At higher elevations individuals seem to prefer forest clearings or forest edge along roads where the iridescent coloured insects bask in the sun on broad leaves of understory vegetation (Hemp 2013b).
Remarks:
In alcohol samples collected by McKamey
et al.
in the Kwamgumi forest reserve at elevations between
150–220 m
in
July 1995
numerous adults and nymphs of
P. usambarica
were identified. Thus
P. usambarica
also occurs on the foothills of the East Usambara Mountains and obviously inhabits also higher trees in lowland forest communities.