Afromecopoda monroviana Karsch 1886, stat. rev.
Description
Afromecopoda monroviana (Karsch, 1886) stat. rev.
At present, there are four named forms in the genus (see Table 8), three of them considered as valid species since Kirby (1906). All except A. preussiana (Karsch, 1891) have spines on the lower side of the hind femora (see key in Redtenbacher 1892). Among the remaining three, A. austera (Karsch, 1893) differs from the other by its short tegmina. Only in this species and in A. monroviana the hind wings are shorter than the tegmina. So this character and the narrow tegmina separate A. monroviana from the sympatric A. frontalis (Walker. 1871). A. monroviana is therefore removed from synonymy and considered as valid species. The species was considered as a synonym of A. frontalis by Kirby (1891) without any comments, probably because of the close proximity of the type localities (Monrovia and Sierra Leone). In recent papers Naskrecki (2007, 2009) mentioned to have found two Afromecopoda species closely together in Ghana, West Africa, one of them identified as A. frontalis.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Phaneropteridae
- Genus
- Afromecopoda
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Orthoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Karsch
- Species
- monroviana
- Taxonomic status
- stat. nov.
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Afromecopoda monroviana (Karsch, 1886) sec. Heller, Hemp, Liu & Volleth, 2014
References
- Karsch, F. (1886) Eine neue westafrikanische Mecopode. Entomologische Nachrichten, Berlin, 12, 316 - 318.
- Kirby, W. F. (1906) A synonymic catalogue of Orthoptera. Vol. II. Orthoptera Saltatoria. Part I. (Achetidae et Phasgonuridae). The Trustees of the British Museum, London, 562 pp.
- Karsch, F. (1891) Uebersicht der von Herrn Dr. Paul Preuss auf der Barombi-Station in Kamerun gesammelten Locustodeen. Anhang: Ueber die Mecopodiden. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift, 36, 317 - 346.
- Redtenbacher, J. (1892) Monographische Uebersicht der Mecopodiden. Verhandlungen der zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft Wien, 42, 183 - 224, pl. 3.
- Karsch, F. (1893) Locustodeen von Victoria in Kamerun, gesammelt durch Herrn Dr. Paul Preuss. Entomologische Nachrichten, Berlin, 19, 195 - 199.
- Walker, F. (1871) Supplement to the Catalogue of Dermaptera Saltatoria. The Trustees of the British Museum, London, 116 pp.
- Kirby, W. F. (1891) Notes on the Orthopterous family Mecopodidae. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 1891, 405 - 412. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 2311.1891. tb 03036. x
- Naskrecki, P. (2007) The katydids of the Atewa Range Forest Reserve, Ghana. RAP Bulletin of Biological Assessment, 47, 63 - 68.
- Naskrecki, P. (2009) A survey of katydids (Insecta: Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) of Ajenjua Bepo and Mamang River Forest Reserves, Eastern region of Ghana. RAP Bulletin of Biological Assessment, 50, 34 - 39.