Ruspolia differens (Serville, 1838)

Felix, Rob P. W. H. & Massa, Bruno, 2016, Orthoptera (Insecta: Tettigonioidea, Pyrgomorphoidea, Acridoidea) of Kafa Biosphere Reserve, Bale Mountains National Park and other areas of conservation interest in Ethiopia, Zootaxa 4189 (1), pp. 1-59 : 8-9

Ruspolia differens (Serville, 1838)

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Material examined. ETHIOPIA: Gambella , Baku Lake (1425 m), 16.IV.2015, B. Massa (1♀, BMPC) ; SNNPR, Bench Maji, Dembi Forest (1260 m), 14.IV.2015, R.P.W.H. Felix (1Ƌ, RFPC), B. Massa (1♀, BMPC) ; Keffa, Kaya Kela (1725 m), 21.IV.2015, R.P.W.H. Felix (1Ƌ, 1♀, RFPC) ; Keffa, Makira Forest (2370 m), 18.IV.2015, R.P.W.H. Felix (1Ƌ, RFPC) ; Oromia, Bale, Goba Village , 11.XII.2015, A. Freidberg (1♀, BMPC) .

Distribution. Ruspolia differens is a very widespread species throughout tropical Africa, including Ethiopia, and is known to occur on some islands of the Indian Ocean: Zanzibar, Mauritius, Madagascar and Seychelles ( Bailey 1975, Bailey & McCrae 1978, Massa 2015b).

Habitat. The Ethiopian specimens were collected in different bush, grass and tall herb vegetation.

Remarks. The stridulatory file of the specimen from Dembi Forest is shown in Figure 6 .

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FIGURE 6. Stridulatory file and mirror of Pseudorhynchus lanceolatus (Dembi Forest), Anoedopoda lamellata (Bale Mountain Lodge) and Ruspolia differens (Dembi Forest, Ethiopia).

FIGURE 7. Ruspolia differens, Dembi Forest (1260 m) (upper left), Kaya Kela (1725 m) (bottom left, upper right) and Makira Forest (2370 m) (upper middle), Ethiopia. Scale bar represents 1 cm.