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Issue: Vol. 1732 No. 1: 25 Mar. 2008
Type: Article
Published: 2008-03-25
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1732.1.1
Page range: 1–28
Abstract views: 52
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New species of arboreal predatory katydids from West Africa (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Meconematinae)

Invertebrate Diversity Initiative, Conservation International, Harvard University, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Orthoptera West African katydids Meconematinae new species egg morphology

Abstract

A new genus (Brachyamytta n. gen.) and ten new species (Proamytta spinifera n. sp., Amyttosa insectivora n. sp., Anepitacta wrightae n. sp., Amyttopsis bakowskii n. sp., A. palmulicerca n. sp., Xiphidiola hokei n. sp., X. lobaticerca n. sp., Brachyamytta rapidoaestima n. sp., B. mculloughae n. sp., and B. maculipes n. sp.) of West African Meconematinae (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) are described. New distribution records for several species are presented, and unusual egg morphology of A. insectivora is discussed.

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