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Issue: Vol. 2056 No. 1: 30 Mar. 2009
Type: Article
Published: 2009-03-30
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2056.1.2
Page range: 46–62
Abstract views: 27
PDF downloaded: 1

A species radiation among South African flightless spring katydids (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Phaneropterinae: Brinckiella Chopard)

Invertebrate Diversity Initiative, CABS, Conservation International Harvard University, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
University of Stellenbosch, Department of Conservation Ecology and Entomology JS Marais Building, Victoria St., Stellenbosch 7602, South Africa
Orthoptera South African katydids Phaneropterinae Brinckiella species radiation fynbos succulent karoo

Abstract

A previously unknown radiation among flightless spring katydids (Tettigoniidae: Phaneropterinae: Brinckiella) in Western and Northern Cape provinces of South Africa is described. Seven species are described as new (B. aptera n. sp., B. arboricola n. sp., B. elegans n. sp., B. karooensis n. sp., B. mauerbergerorum n. sp., B. serricauda n. sp., and B. wilsoni n. sp.) and one species (B. viridis Chopard) is redescribed.

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