Abstract
A new species of Physocrobylus, P. venetussp. nov., is described from the Nguru Mountains of Tanzania. It is the third species in the genus restricted to Tanzanian localities. While P. venetussp. nov. and P. tessa Hochkirch prefer moister forest communities from lowland to submontane forest in the East Usambara and Nguru Mountains, P. burtti Dirsh is an inhabitant of Miombo woodlands.
Highlights
The genus Physocrobylus was erected by Dirsh (1951) on a single female collected in the Kiboriani Hills, Mpwapwa District of Tanzania
When Hochkirch (1996) detected a second species of the genus, P. tessa, in the East Usambara Mountains, the genus Physocrobylus was transferred to Coptacrinae because it shared a furcula and the transverse fold on the subgenital plate with this subfamily
In the entomological collection of London (NHML), besides the female holotype of P. burtti, there are a couple of specimens that were collected by Jago from a locality 44 miles north of Dodoma (East Chenene Forest Reserve)
Summary
The genus Physocrobylus was erected by Dirsh (1951) on a single female collected in the Kiboriani Hills, Mpwapwa District of Tanzania. When Hochkirch (1996) detected a second species of the genus, P. tessa, in the East Usambara Mountains, the genus Physocrobylus was transferred to Coptacrinae because it shared a furcula and the transverse fold on the subgenital plate with this subfamily. In the entomological collection of London (NHML), besides the female holotype of P. burtti, there are a couple of specimens that were collected by Jago from a locality 44 miles north of Dodoma (East Chenene Forest Reserve).
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