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Issue: Vol. 3218 No. 1: 1 Mar. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-03-01
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3218.1.5
Page range: 47–58
Abstract views: 41
PDF downloaded: 2

A revision of the southern African katydid genus Griffiniana Karny (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Mecopodinae)

Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Steinhardt Museum, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, , Tel Aviv 69978 ISRAEL
Orthoptera Southern African katydids Mecopodinae Aprosphylini Griffiniana

Abstract

The South African genus Griffiniana Karny of squamipterous to macropterous katydids (Tettigoniidae: Mecopodinae:Aprosphylini) is revised and a key to species is provided; G. duplessisae sp. n. from the Western Cape Province is de-scribed; acoustic behavior of G. capensis Karny, G. duplessisae, and G. longipes (Naskrecki) is described. The genusEwanella Naskrecki is considered a junior synonym of Griffiniana, and E. breviuscula Gorochov is synonymized with G. longipes.

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