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Abstract
Review of the genus Lunidia Hemp (Orthoptera: Phaneropteridae) and the description of a new species from the Uluguru Mountains of Tanzania, East Africa
Highlights
The Uluguru Mountains in Tanzania belong to a series of mountain ranges, the so-called Eastern Arc Mountains
After isolation and a retreat of forest to higher elevations due to an ongoing aridification, especially flightless taxa adapted to a mountainous forest climate or went extinct. That these processes led to the biogeographical pattern we see today for flightless Orthoptera was shown e.g. for species of the tiny lentulids Rhainopomma and Altiusambilla (Lentulidae; Schultz et al 2007, Hemp et al 2007), the coptacridine genus Parepistaurus (Hemp et al 2015) and members of the Karniellina (Conocephalinae) in the genera Fulvoscirtes, Chortoscirtes, and Melanoscirtes (Hemp et al 2010a, c, 2012). This suggests that climatic fluctuations of the past 1–2 million years were the drivers of the high biodiversity in the area and that most orthopteran species are the product of a young radiation
The genus Lunidia Hemp was erected on L. viridis from Mt Kilimanjaro in Tanzania
Summary
The Uluguru Mountains in Tanzania belong to a series of mountain ranges, the so-called Eastern Arc Mountains. The genus Lunidia Hemp was erected on L. viridis from Mt Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. L. viridis is a forest dependent species common in the submontane and lower montane zone.
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