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Biogeography, ecology, acoustics and chromosomes of East African Eurycorypha Stål species (Orthoptera, Phaneropterinae) with the description of new species

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Although Eurycorypha is the most species-rich Phaneropterinae genus in Africa, little is known about the distribution and the ecology of the species. In this study data on distribution, ecology, song and on chromosomes of some East African species are provided. The nymphs of some species are shown, famous for their ant-like appearance and behaviour. The male of E. punctipennis Chopard and three species of Eurycorypha are newly described. These are E. resonans n. sp. and E. combretoides n. sp. occurring in different habitats on Mount Kilimanjaro, and E. conclusa n. sp from forest habitats along the Tanzanian coast. Bioacoustically, the four recorded species are unusually divers, presenting non-resonant and resonant songs. As four Eurycorypha species occur syntopically on geological young Mount Kilimanjaro, the biogeographical pattern and possible speciation mechanisms in the genus Eurycorypha are discussed in context of the climatical history of eastern Africa.

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Acknowledgements

Part of this research received support from the Synthesys Project (http://www.sysnthesys.info/) financed by the European Community Research Infrastructure Action under the FP6 “Structuring the European Research Area Programme”, enabling us to visit collections in London, Vienna, Stockholm and Tervuren. We gratefully acknowledge grants by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and the Tanzanian Commission for Science and Technology for permitting research.

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  1. Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology (Zoology III), University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

    Claudia Hemp

  2. Institute of Biology, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

    Klaus-Gerhard Heller

  3. Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków, Poland

    Elżbieta Warchałowska-Śliwa & Beata Grzywacz

  4. Department of Plant Systematics, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany

    Andreas Hemp

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Hemp, C., Heller, KG., Warchałowska-Śliwa, E. et al. Biogeography, ecology, acoustics and chromosomes of East African Eurycorypha Stål species (Orthoptera, Phaneropterinae) with the description of new species. Org Divers Evol 13, 373–395 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13127-012-0123-1

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