Annotated list of Ensifera (Orthoptera) and further records on Caelifera (Orthoptera) of Mt Kilimanjaro, Tanzania
Author
Hemp, Claudia
text
Zootaxa
2013
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301
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3613.4.1
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Eurycorypha meruensis
Sjöstedt, 1909
(
Fig. 11
C, D)
Distribution.
Common species in East Africa (Chopard & Kevan 1954).
Described from Mt Meru by Sjöstedt (1909).
Ecology and biology.
Attracted to light (Chopard & Kevan 1954). Adults in November (Sjöstedt 1909). Probably present throughout the year, adults being collected in June, October and very most frequently in November to March.
Habitat.
Hemp C.
2005
.
Hemp
et al
.,
2013
.
Common in coffee-banana plantations of the submontane and more rarely the montane zone. Also in submontane forests to the lower border of the montane forest at Mt Kilimanjaro
.
Chromosomes:
Hemp
et al
., 2013.
Altitudinal range at Mt Kilimanjaro
:
1300–1900 m
.
Records
: 6