Enyaliopsis spec. 2 Mpwapwa

This species is called Mpwapwa Armoured Ground Bushcricket and can be identified using the key in Hemp (2021). The single known male specimen of this species has a small body size and the spines of the pronotum are rather short. It resembles E. spec. 3 from the East Chenene Forest Reserve further north-west but is smaller in body size and the pronotum is less spiny.

Material examined: 1 male [CH8353 (SR, TI, CHR), TANZANIA, Mpwapwa plateau, Dodoma Region, Wotta Forest Reserve, 1840 m, March 2017, leg. C. Hemp.

Reference: Hemp 2021

Bioacoustics. The calling song (Fig. 8H) consists of long series of syllables (song type B in Fig. 5; see Table 2). The spectrum of the song (Fig. 6; peak at 13 kHz) does not show large differences to the typical Hetrodini pattern.

Genitalia. In a comparison of figures, the titillator of our specimen (Fig. 9G) is most similar to that of E. monsteri Glenn, 1991 from the petersi group.

Chromosomes: 2n = 27 (26 + X0), FN = 30; pair 1 submetacentric, 2–13 acrocentric, X chromosome metacentric (1 male); thin C-bands in the paracentromeric region of all chromosomes (Fig. 12F)