Ruspolia ampla (Walker, 1869)

Naskrecki, Piotr & Guta, Ricardo, 2019, Katydids (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) of Gorongosa National Park and Central Mozambique, Zootaxa 4682 (1), pp. 1-119 : 28

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4682.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:430B98EF-BFCB-4608-A562-DEFA9539C8B2

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5629471

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D8878E-FC6A-D920-CCFE-54EDFB4B36C7

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scientific name

Ruspolia ampla (Walker, 1869)
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Ruspolia ampla (Walker, 1869) View in CoL

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( Figs. 11A, B View FIGURE 11 , 48 View FIGURE 48 D–F)

Diagnostic remarks. The most robust species of all Mozambican Ruspolia spp., with the stridulatory area of the tegmina distinctly wider than the pronotum ( Fig. 11B View FIGURE 11 ). The proximal area of the stridulatory area on the left tegmen (between the stridulatory vein A 1 and around A 2) always with a distinct dark spot in both green and brown forms of this species. The dorsal surface of the stridulatory vein has nearly parallel edges, with little attenuation on both ends, with 87 teeth ( Fig. 11A View FIGURE 11 ).

Bioacoustics. The call of this species is exceptionally loud and can be heard from a distance of several hundred meters. Males call both during the day and at night, producing long, uninterrupted trains of syllables (mean syllable duration 0.0695 s, SD=0.0028; n=22) at the rate ranging from 11 to 12 syllables/sec (at 17°C), with the frequency peak at about 9.3. kHz ( Figs. 48 View FIGURE 48 D–F).

Material examined (5 specimens). Mozambique: Sofala, Gorongosa , GNP, Murombodzi Waterfall , nr. Mt. Gorongosa , elev. 842 m (-18.483361, 34.042944), 19.v.2013, coll. P. Naskrecki— 1 female, 1 male GoogleMaps ; same locality, 21–22.v.2015, coll. P. Naskrecki— 1 female, 1 male ( MCZ); Gorongosa Dist., GNP, nr. Nhascuvo outpost, (- 19.062639, 34.232194), 24–28.vi.2014, coll. G. Daniel, I. Nganhane & R. Guta— 1 male ( EOWL) GoogleMaps .

MCZ

Museum of Comparative Zoology

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Orthoptera

Family

Tettigoniidae

Genus

Ruspolia

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