Annotated list of Tettigoniidae (Orthoptera) from the East Usambara Mountains Tanzania and new Tettigoniidae species from East Africa
Author
Hemp, Claudia
text
Zootaxa
2013
3737
4
301
350
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3737.4.1
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1175-5326
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Genus
Gelotopoia
Brunner
von Wattenwyl
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Orthoptera
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The genus
Gelotopoia
was erected on
G. bicolor
from
Sierra Leone
by Brunner von Wattenwyl (1891). A wide distribution was given for this monotypic genus by Ragge (1980) covering West, Central, East and South West Africa. Studying the specimens in the Natural History Museum London showed that more than one species is present. Differences are seen in the genitalic apparatus as well as in the shape of the pronotum and the spination of the legs. Thus probably new species are present occurring in
Angola
,
Uganda
and the East Usambara Mountains. Here the species from the East Usambara Mountains is newly described as
G. amabilis
n. sp.