Phlesirtes brachiatus ( Uvarov, 1924 )

Hemp, Claudia & Heller, Klaus-Gerhard, 2017, The genus Phlesirtes Bolivar, 1922 (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Conocephalinae, Conocephalini; Karniellina), a review of the genus with data on its bioacoustics and the description of new species, Zootaxa 4244 (4), pp. 451-477 : 457

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4244.4.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5690042

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Phlesirtes brachiatus ( Uvarov, 1924 )
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Phlesirtes brachiatus ( Uvarov, 1924) View in CoL

( Fig. 4 View FIGURE 4 A, B; Fig. 16 View FIGURE 16 )

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Holotype. Phlesirtes brachiatus , male. Depository: BMNH. Locality: British East Africa. Collector: R. Ford.

Description. See Uvarov (1924).

Measurements (mm). Length of body 10, length of pronotum 5, length of anterior femur -, length of posterior femur 10.5, visible portion of elytra from above 1.5.

Remarks. P. brachiatus was described on one male labelled by R. Ford “ British East Africa ”. In the collection of the Natural History Museum London more specimens possibly belonging to this species were studied ( Table 2 View TABLE 2 ).

Very likely however, various new species are expected to be found in the different mountainous areas of Ethiopia.

As seen in Table 2 View TABLE 2 most localities lie at considerable elevations and thus it is very likely that P. brachiatus isas other species of the genus as well—a montane bound species.

Diagnosis. P. brachiatus has a short inner branch of the male cerci and a broadly rounded u-shaped gap between the processes of the 10th abdominal tergite ( Fig. 4 View FIGURE 4 A, B).

TABLE 2. Localities of P. brachiatus specimens in Ethiopia in the collection of the British Museum London, UK. Locality names found at Geonames (http: // www. geonames. org).

Locality on labels Locality Elevation
Addis Ababa Addis Ababa city centre to surrounding mountains: 2300–2700 m
Chencha Ch´ench´a, Gamo Gofa Province 2738 m
Djema Djema not found -
Gamo Province Gamo Gofa administrtive division 813–4200 m
Mt Chillalo Ch´ilalo Terara; Arsi region village Asela at mountain foot to top of mountain: 2409–3995 m
Mt Zuquala Mt Zuqualla mountain foot to top: 1694–2989 m

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Orthoptera

Family

Tettigoniidae

Genus

Phlesirtes

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