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Fulvoscirtes kilimandjaricus (Sjöstedt, 1910)

Fulvoscirtes kilimandjaricus (Sjöstedt, 1910): male (Kilimanjaro, Kidia, 1710 m). (Otu).
Fulvoscirtes kilimandjaricus (Sjöstedt, 1910): male (Kilimanjaro, Kidia, 1710 m). (Otu).
Fulvoscirtes kilimandjaricus (Sjöstedt, 1910): male (Kilimanjaro, Kidia, 1710 m). (Otu).
Fulvoscirtes kilimandjaricus (Sjöstedt, 1910): male nymph (Kilimanjaro, Kidia). (Otu).
Fulvoscirtes kilimandjaricus (Sjöstedt, 1910): female nymph (Kilimanjaro, Kidia). (Otu).
Fulvoscirtes kilimandjaricus (Sjöstedt, 1910): female (Kilimanjaro, Kidia, 1800 m). (Otu).
Fulvoscirtes kilimandjaricus (Sjöstedt, 1910): female (Kilimanjaro, Kidia). (Otu).
CollectionObject 1502487; 85ef8b77-67cc-4184-901c-6318a08f5712: male, lateral view (cotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1502487; 85ef8b77-67cc-4184-901c-6318a08f5712: male, dorsal view (cotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1502487; 85ef8b77-67cc-4184-901c-6318a08f5712: male, frontal view (cotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1502487; 85ef8b77-67cc-4184-901c-6318a08f5712: male cerci (cotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1502487; 85ef8b77-67cc-4184-901c-6318a08f5712: labels (cotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1529624; 67f8256e-82ec-420b-8105-dfc8e70d1fea: male, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1529624; 67f8256e-82ec-420b-8105-dfc8e70d1fea: male, dorsal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1529624; 67f8256e-82ec-420b-8105-dfc8e70d1fea: male, frontal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1529624; 67f8256e-82ec-420b-8105-dfc8e70d1fea: male subgenital plate (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1529624; 67f8256e-82ec-420b-8105-dfc8e70d1fea: male cerci (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1529624; 67f8256e-82ec-420b-8105-dfc8e70d1fea: labels (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1530622; a0076290-eb05-4b71-863d-164e0d9b6509: female, lateral view (allotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1530622; a0076290-eb05-4b71-863d-164e0d9b6509: female pronotum, lateral view (allotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1530622; a0076290-eb05-4b71-863d-164e0d9b6509: female, dorsal view (allotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1530622; a0076290-eb05-4b71-863d-164e0d9b6509: female, frontal view (allotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1530622; a0076290-eb05-4b71-863d-164e0d9b6509: female ovipositor (allotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1530622; a0076290-eb05-4b71-863d-164e0d9b6509: female subgenital plate (allotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1530622; a0076290-eb05-4b71-863d-164e0d9b6509: labels (allotype). (CollectionObject).

Type specimen

Holotype; male; 67f8256e-82ec-420b-8105-dfc8e70d1fea; deposited at: Swedish Museum of Natural History, Entomology Collections (NHRS); United Republic of Tanzania: Kilimanjaro: Kilimandjaro, Kibonoto

Nomenclature (9)

  • Xiphidion kilimandjaricum Sjöstedt, 1910: 138.

    Holotype; male; 67f8256e-82ec-420b-8105-dfc8e70d1fea; deposited at: Swedish Museum of Natural History, Entomology Collections (NHRS); United Republic of Tanzania: Kilimanjaro: Kilimandjaro, Kibonoto

  • Conocephalus (Xiphidion) kilimandjaricus (Sjöstedt, 1910) in Karny, 1912: 12.
  • ... Show all ... (5)
  • Fulvoscirtes kilimandjaricus (Sjöstedt, 1910) in Hemp, Grzywacz, Warchalowska-Sliwa & Hemp, 2016: 214.
  • Fulvoscirtes kilimandjaricus (Sjöstedt, 1910) in Hemp, 2021: 82.

Nomenclature references (9)

  • Hemp, C. & Hemp, A. (2003) Saltatoria coenoses of high-altitude grasslands on Mt. Kilimanjaro Tanzania (Orthoptera: Saltatoria). Ecotropica, 9, 71–97. Available at http://www.soctropecol.eu/publications/pdf/9%201-2/Hemp,%20Hemp,%202003.pdf
  • Hemp, C. (2013) Annotated list of Ensifera (Orthoptera) and further records on Caelifera (Orthoptera) of Mt Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. Zootaxa, 3613(4), 301–342.
  • ... Show all ... (5)
  • Hemp, C. (2021) In A Field Guide to the Bushcrickets, Wetas and Raspy Crickets of Tanzania and Kenya. Senckenberg. 451 pp.
  • Hemp, C., Grzywacz, B., Warchalowska-Sliwa, E. & Hemp, A. (2016) Topography and climatic fluctuations boosting speciation: biogeography and a molecular phylogeny of the East African genera Afroanthracites Hemp & Ingrisch and Afroagraecia Ingrisch & Hemp (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae, Conocephalinae, Agraeciini). Organisms, Diversity & Evolution, 16(1), 211–223.
  • Hemp, C., Heller, K.-G., Kehl, S., Warchalowska-Sliwa, E., Wägele, J.W. & Hemp, A. (2010) The Phlesirtes complex (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae, Conocephalinae, Conocephalini) reviewed: integrating morphological, molecular, chromosomal and bioacoustic data. Systematic Entomology, 35, 554–580.
  • Hemp, C., Kehl, S., Heller, K.-G., Wägele, J.W. & Hemp, A. (2012) Ecological adaptations of grassland-inhabiting flightless Orthoptera: Fulvoscirtes and Acanthoscirtes, two new genera of African Karniellina (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae, Conocephalinae, Conocephalini). Systematic Entomology, 37, 387–407.
  • Karny, H.H. (1912) Orthoptera Fam. Locustidae Subfam. Conocephalinae. In Genera Insectorum. P. Wytsman [Ed.]. V. Verteneuil & L. Desmet, Bruxelles. Vol. 135, 1–17 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/123362#page/3/mode/1up
  • Otte, D. (1997) Orthoptera Species File 7. Tettigonioidea. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 373 pp.
  • Sjöstedt, Y. (1910) 17. Orthoptera. 6. Locustodea. In Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der schwedischen zoologischen Expedition nach dem Kilimandjaro, dem Meru und den umgebenden Massaisteppen Deutsch-Ostafrikas, 1905-1906 unter Leitung von Prof. Dr. Yngve Sjöstedt. P. Palmquists, Stockholm. Vol. 3, pp. 125–148. [1909] Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/16983#page/241/mode/1up
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Descendants and synonyms

No records found.
Distribution text

endemic to Mt Kilimanjaro, southern slopes, 1100–2000 m (mostly 1400–1800 m)

Life zone and ecology data

Terrestrial. Hyparrhenia grasslands and grassy patches in submontane plantation belt, rarely in Bulbostylis grasslands of montane zone.

Gender, form, and etymology
Adjectivekilimandjaricus, kilimandjarica, kilimandjaricum

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