Eulioptera Ragge, 1956

Massa, Bruno, 2022, On some interesting Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae and Acrididae from tropical Africa, Zootaxa 5178 (2), pp. 152-160 : 153

Genus Eulioptera Ragge, 1956

The genus Eulioptera Ragge, 1956 is closely related to Phaneroptera Serville, 1831 and is as well distributed over most of tropical Africa. Presently, this genus is represented by 23 species including two subspecies (probably eventually to be elevated to species level), and others will be discovered in the future years with increasing researches by using light traps and examining material preserved in the museums ( Hemp 2021, C. Hemp, pers. comm.). Eulioptera generally are localsed and most species are known from one or a few localities, single or a few specimens.

Among the material preserved in the MZUF a male from Malindi ( Kenya), previously identified as Eulioptera monticola Ragge, 1980 , more carefully examined turned out not to correspond with any described species.