Hemp Claudia
University of Würzburg, Dept. Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology (Zoology III), Am Hubland , 97974 Würzburg, Germany; Email:
Zootaxa. 2013 Dec 21;3737:301-50. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3737.4.1.
A list of the Tettigoniidae (Orthoptera) of the East Usambara Mountains is presented and 16 new species are described from East Africa. A total number of 29 Tettigoniidae species is recorded for the East Usambara Mountains. New species are described from the Shimba Hills in Kenya, coastal Tanzania from the Kazimzumbwi forest reserve, Mt Kilimanjaro, the East and West Usambara and Uluguru Mountains in Tanzania, namely in Conocephalinae Afroagraecia pwania n. sp., Afroagraecia shimbaensis n. sp., Afroanthracites discolor n. sp., Afroanthracites jagoi n. sp. and Afroanthracites viridis n. sp., in Meconematinae Afrophisis flagellata n. sp., Afrophisis kisarawe n. sp., Afrophisis mazumbaiensis n. sp. and Afrophisis pseudoflagellata n. sp., in Hexacentrinae Aerotegmina megaloptera n. sp., in Mecopodinae Apteroscirtus cristatus n. sp., and A. planidorsatus n. sp., in Phaneropterinae Gelotopoia amabilis n. sp., and in Pseudophyllinae Cymatomerella pardopunctata n. sp. and Cymatomera viridimaculata n. sp. Seven species are endemic to the East Usambara Mountains which are 25% of the recorded forest-bound bush crickets. The Tettigoniidae fauna is compared between the East Usambara Mountains and Mt Kilimanjaro and mechanisms of speciation discussed in Orthoptera for the area. New Tettigoniidae records are given for Mt Kilimanjaro (Oxyecous apertus Ragge, Tropidonotacris grandis Ragge and Eurycorypha conclusa Hemp).
本文列出了东乌桑巴拉山脉的螽斯科（直翅目）昆虫，并描述了来自东非的16个新物种。东乌桑巴拉山脉共记录到29种螽斯科昆虫。新物种来自肯尼亚的希姆巴山、坦桑尼亚沿海的卡齐姆祖姆维森林保护区、乞力马扎罗山、坦桑尼亚的东、西乌桑巴拉山脉和乌卢古鲁山脉，具体如下：康螽亚科的非洲阿格拉螽属的帕瓦尼亚新种、希姆巴新种，非洲炭螽属的变色新种、贾戈伊新种和绿色新种；梅氏螽亚科的非洲菲西斯螽属的鞭状新种、基萨拉韦新种、马宗贝新种和拟鞭状新种；六刺螽亚科的气螽属的巨翅新种；鸣螽亚科的无翅鸣螽属的嵴状新种和平背新种；扇螽亚科的优美扇螽属的美丽新种；伪叶螽亚科的豹点伪叶螽属的豹点新种和绿斑伪叶螽属的绿斑新种。有7个物种是东乌桑巴拉山脉特有的，占记录的森林栖息螽斯科昆虫的25%。本文比较了东乌桑巴拉山脉和乞力马扎罗山的螽斯科昆虫区系，并讨论了该地区直翅目昆虫的物种形成机制。文中还给出了乞力马扎罗山的新螽斯科记录（拉格的开口尖螽、拉格的大热带螽和亨普的封闭阔颜螽）。
