Katydids (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) of Gorongosa National Park and Central Mozambique Author Naskrecki, Piotr Author Guta, Ricardo text Zootaxa 2019 2019-10-04 4682 1 1 119 journal article 25307 10.11646/zootaxa.4682.1.1 3981e1e7-9d35-4f45-857c-da0bca835157 1175-5326 3472787 430B98EF-BFCB-4608-A562-DEFA9539C8B2 Phaneroptera parva Ragge, 1956 http://lsid.speciesfile.org/urn:lsid: Orthoptera .speciesfile.org:TaxonName:8231 ( Figs. 25 G–I, 51G–I) Diagnostic remarks. One of the smallest katydids in Mozambique , P. parva can be distinguished from other members of the genus by the shape of the male cerci ( Fig. 25H ) and a distinctly shorter tegmen in comparison to the length of the hind wing ( Fig. 25I ). Bioacoustics. The call of P. sparsa consists of a series of single syllables produced at the rate of approximately 0.2/s; mean syllable duration is 0.10966 s (SD=0.02159, n=6); the peak frequency of the call is 42.7–50.4 kHz ( Figs. 51 G–I). This species is the only katydid in Gorongosa other than Gorongosa carri known to produce a purely ultrasonic call. Distribution and natural history. P. parva has so far been known only from its type specimens collected in Nigeria , the Democratic Republic of the Congo , and Malawi ( Ragge 1956a ), and this is its first record from Mozambique . Based on the known distribution of this species it is likely that it occurs throughout the sub-Saharan Africa. In Gorongosa P. parva is a rarely encountered species, found in open, grassy habitats, where it has been seen feeding on flowers of grasses. Measurements ( 1 male , 1 female ). body w/wings: male 22.5, female 19; body w/o wings: male 9.6, female 9; pronotum: male 2.4, female 3; tegmen: male 10.7, female 12; hind femur: male 12.3, female 14; ovipositor: 4 mm . Material examined ( 8 specimens ). Mozambique : Sofala , Gorongosa , Chitengo , E.O. Wilson Laboratory , elev. 42 m ( -18.97775 , 34.35130 ), 1–15.x.2017 , coll. P. Naskrecki— 1 female ; GNP, Chitengo, E.O. Wilson Laboratory, elev. 48 m ( -18.977722 , 34.351333 ), 15–30.ix.2017 , coll. P. Naskrecki— 1 male ; GNP, Chitengo, Wilson Laboratory, elev. 48 m ( -18.977722 , 34.351333 ), 1–15.i.2018 , coll. P. Naskrecki & N. Vicente— 1 male ; GNP, JAG Exclosure 15, ( -18.89506 , 34.44695 ), 10.vi.2017 , coll. J. Guyton— 1 female , 1 male ( EOWL ) ; Gorongosa Dist. , GNP, nr. Lion House , ( -18.915186 , 34.370425 ), 27.v.2013 , coll. P. Naskrecki— 1 female ( MCZ ) .