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Paratype. 1 female; shaken from understory trees of montane forest,
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Male.
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: Flightless, small, uniformly light yellowish green. In life specimens laterally pair of vivid yellow lines starting on head behind eyes, continuing along pronotum, fading in preserved specimens. Eyes brown-reddish. Tegmina meeting median, along the vanal area with brownish lines.
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Fastigium of vertex smooth conical, conus between eyes about half the size of first antennal segment. Antennae green in alive specimens, fading to tawny-whitish in preserved ones; longer than body length. Eyes circular, prominent, of brown-red colour. Cuticle of pronotum shiny, short scattered hairs along pronotal margins. Elytra shortend, tectiform with reduced venation. Stridulatory area hidden under pronotum. Alae reduced to slender lobes covered by elytra.
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: Fore and mid tibiae with open tympanum, with 45 outer and mostly 4 inner spines, apical with a minute pair of spurs.
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Last tergite broad with deeply inwardly rounded posterior margin (
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C, D). Cerci differentiated into two lobes, outer one shovel-like expanded, inner one twisted into three-dimensional structured apex (
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C, D). Subgenital plate almost as long as broad with two flattened, lobe-like styli.
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Female. General body shape, size and colour as male. Ovipositor slender and smooth, only slightly up-curved. Subgenital plate at base very broad (
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G).
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<paragraph id="8BC036A27A548302FF70FD544748981F" blockId="12.[159,969,708,1143]" pageId="12" pageNumber="307">Body length 1314.7 Median length of pronotum 4.24.5</paragraph>
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Length of ovipositor 8.29.1
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. Tree and bush layer in montane forest collected between
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<emphasis id="B90BEAB07A548302FF28FABF45759E2C" bold="true" box="[199,321,1286,1311]" pageId="12" pageNumber="307">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
Distinguished from most other
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<emphasis id="B90BEAB07A548302FD5AFABE47309E2D" box="[693,772,1287,1310]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="307">Amytta</emphasis>
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species by the male cerci that are differentiated into two branches of which the outer one is expanded and laterally flattened and the inner one elongated and twisted with a three-dimensionally shaped apex.
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<emphasis id="B90BEAB07A548302FDF9FAF646A19E54" box="[534,661,1358,1383]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="307">A. ukamica</emphasis>
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also has male cerci that are parted into two branches but this species is fully alate.
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<emphasis id="B90BEAB07A548302FEDEFACA45C19EB8" box="[305,501,1394,1419]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="307">A. kilimandjarica</emphasis>
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(
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A, B) is very similar to
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<emphasis id="B90BEAB07A548302FCB3FACA402C9EB8" box="[860,1048,1395,1419]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="307">A. merumontana</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B90BEAB07A548302FBF1FACB40699EB8" bold="true" box="[1054,1117,1394,1419]" pageId="12" pageNumber="307">n. sp.</emphasis>
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(
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C, D). However, the triangular projection of the outer cercal branch in
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<emphasis id="B90BEAB07A548302FD28FA2E47B79E9D" box="[711,899,1431,1454]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="307">A. merumontana</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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<emphasis id="B90BEAB07A548302FC65FA2F47FD9E9C" bold="true" box="[906,969,1430,1455]" pageId="12" pageNumber="307">n. sp.</emphasis>
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is more slender than in
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<emphasis id="B90BEAB07A548302FB37FA2E41A89E9C" box="[1240,1436,1430,1455]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="307">A. kilimandjarica</emphasis>
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and the inner twisted branch differently shaped. While in
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<emphasis id="B90BEAB07A548302FCC3FA0247DD9EE0" box="[812,1001,1467,1491]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="307">A. merumontana</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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<emphasis id="B90BEAB07A548302FC1EFA0340069EE0" bold="true" box="[1009,1074,1466,1491]" pageId="12" pageNumber="307">n. sp.</emphasis>
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the tips of the inner branch are elongated and a projection to the opposite direction is expressed as a blunt knob this part is longer and conus-like in
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<emphasis id="B90BEAB07A548302FF78F9BA45699D28" box="[151,349,1538,1563]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="307">A. kilimandjarica</emphasis>
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(see
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B). Females of
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<emphasis id="B90BEAB07A548302FD71F9BA47519D28" box="[670,869,1538,1563]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="307">A. kilimandjarica</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="B90BEAB07A548302FC4FF9BA40699D28" box="[928,1117,1539,1563]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="307">A. merumontana</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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<emphasis id="B90BEAB07A548302FB89F9BB409C9D28" bold="true" box="[1126,1192,1538,1563]" pageId="12" pageNumber="307">n. sp.</emphasis>
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can distinguished by comparing the subgenital plate which is broad with a straight posterior margin in
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<emphasis id="B90BEAB07A548302FBF1F99E40EC9D0D" box="[1054,1240,1575,1598]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="307">A. merumontana</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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<emphasis id="B90BEAB07A548302FB31F99F41289D0C" bold="true" box="[1246,1308,1574,1599]" pageId="12" pageNumber="307">n. sp.</emphasis>
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while in
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<emphasis id="B90BEAB07A548302FA6BF99E45089D50" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="307">A. kilimandjarica</emphasis>
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two lateral processes are present and the posterior margin is evenly rounded (
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F).
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</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="C36565297A548302FF28F9D745509D98" pageId="12" pageNumber="307" type="etymology">
<paragraph id="8BC036A27A548302FF28F9D745509D98" blockId="12.[151,1437,1214,1707]" pageId="12" pageNumber="307">
<emphasis id="B90BEAB07A548302FF28F9D7457A9DB4" bold="true" box="[199,334,1646,1671]" pageId="12" pageNumber="307">Etymology.</emphasis>
From Mt
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and the montane zone since this new species is endemic to the montane zone of Mt
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in
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.
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