Eurycorypha punctipennis Chopard, 1938
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https://doi.org/ 10.1007/s13127-012-0123-1 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039487DB-613A-FF9A-FCE9-8D10FD538F02 |
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Felipe |
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Eurycorypha punctipennis Chopard, 1938 |
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Eurycorypha punctipennis Chopard, 1938 View in CoL
Holotype Female, Kenya, Mont Elgon, Suam Fishing Hut, st.34, 2400 m, NMHN (Paris). New localities: Tanzania, Mt Kilimanjaro and Uganda, Kawanda.
One male, Kidia , plantation belt southern slopes, 1430 m April 2002; depository, MNB ; 1 female, Tanzania, Mount Kilimanjaro Mahoma , plantation belt southern slopes, 1330 m, November 2010, depository MNB ; 1 male, Tanzania, Mount Kilimanjaro, Msaranga valley , southern slopes, remnant riverine forest, 1300 m, January 2012, depository NHML ; 1 female, Tanzania, Mount Kilimanjaro, Msaranga valley , southern slopes, remnant riverine forest, 1300 m, March 2012, depository NHML ; 1 male, Tanzania, Mount Kilimanjaro, Kidia , plantation belt southern slopes, 1430 m, March 2002, depository EDNMK ; 1 female, Tanzania, Mount Kilimanjaro, Kidia , plantation belt southern slopes, 1430 m, February 2000, depository EDNMK .
Further material: All Tanzania , all Mount Kilimanjaro southern slopes: 3 males, 1 female Msaranga valley , southern slopes, remnant riverine forest , 1300 m, January and February 2012; 3 males, Mahoma, plantation belt, 1330 m, March and April 2012; 2 males, plantation belt 1300– 1400 m, January 2005 and December 2011 (collection C. Hemp). One male, Democratic Republic of Congo ( DRC) , Kibali-Ituri, Kilomines ; 3 females, Uganda , Kawanda (collection NHM London, UK) .
Description of the male Colour: In difference to most other uniformly green Eurycorypha species, of yellowish green colour with dark maculae of various size scattered on tegmina. Pronotum and head yellowish green, abdomen of more intensive yellow colour.
Head and antennae Antennae yellowish, very thin, almost reaching tips of folded tegmina. Fastigium of vertex broad, almost double as wide as scapus of antenna; fastigium of vertex meeting equally broad fastigium of frons along well-developed horizontal line with deep median sulcus; face with rather obsolete frontogenal carinae; eyes elongate and oval, black and thus very contrasting to yellow head.
Thorax Pronotum with well developed lateral carinae with slightly rugose surface; anterior margin of pronotum with median v-shaped indentation; uniformly yellowish, most males with pair of tiny dark dots and each side on disc of prozona.
Wings Both pairs of wings fully developed; tegmina elongate, evenly rounded at tips, about 3.5 times longer than broad. Tegmina with veins and veinlets yellow, cells more green; dark maculae usually present, most males with dark area around mirror on left tegmen. Margin of costal area of tegmina more dark, also radius and subcosta, which are contiguous over almost their whole length, marked dark.
chromosome (a–c), as well as telomeric C-bands on two medium-sized pairs (b). Arrowheads show interstitial C-bands of the S 8/9 pair. A cluster of 18S rDNA in diakinesis (e) coincide with one nucleolar organiser region located on the S 8/9 pair in the early mitotic metaphase (d) (open arrows). X sex chromosome
Tegmina, thus resembling dropped yellowish brown leaves. Alae shiny with green area near tips which surpass tegmina when folded.
Legs Fore coxa with tiny spine; legs yellowish; hind tibiae with dorsal dark markings at base near knee, and ventral dark maculae near apex ( Fig. 9a View Fig ); fore tibiae with open tympanum and, untypical for genus Eurycorypha , with dark, stout, short spine at distal end of auditory swelling; also mid-tibiae with two dark marked dorsal spurs. Hind tibiae, as typical for Eurycorypha with three slender apical spurs on each side.
Abdomen Yellow with dark stigmata; last abdominal tergite flattened, with evenly incurved posterior margin and elevat- ed edges ( Fig. 10a, b View Fig ). Cerci rather stout, decussate with acute and sclerotised tips. Subgenital plate elongate with slightly incurved posterior margin and very short styli ( Fig. 10c View Fig ).
Female As described by Chopard (1938). Ovipositor slightly curved upwards, as in Fig. 11a View Fig . Subgenital plate as in Fig. 11b View Fig . The measurements of female specimens from Mount Kilimanjaro fit the measurements of the holotype as given by Chopard (1938).
Measurements (mm)
Males n= 6 Females n=4 Chopard 1938 female holotype
Body length 15.0 – 18.0 17.0 – 20.0 20
(mean: 16.8) (mean: 18)
Pronotum 4.9 – 5.3 4.7 – 5.4 5
(mean: 5.2) (mean: 5.1)
Posterior 15.0 – 16.5 16.5 – 19.0 16
femur length (mean: 15.4) (mean: 17.5)
Length of 27.0 – 30.0 30.0 – 32.0 31.5
tegmina (mean: 28.3) (mean: 30.5)
Width of 8.0 – 8.8 9.9 – 11.0
tegmen (mean: 8.3) (mean: 10.3)
Length of - 5.4 – 6.2 6
ovipositor (mean: 5.9)
Habitat and phenology on Mount Kilimanjaro Canopy dweller of riverine forest and within coffee–banana plantations at sub-montane elevations. Individuals were mostly collected during the warm period of the year, between December and March. Recorded between 1300 and 1500 m on Mount Kilimanjaro ( Table 2), the holotype was collected at 2400 m on Mount Elgon in western Kenya.
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Natural History Museum, Tripoli |
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University of Nottingham |
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