The genus Chromothericles is reviewed. Data on distribution, habitat and ecology are given for most species and four species new to science described. Along with a key to all species (excepting C. pulchripes Descamps, for which only the female is known), phenological data are provided for C. uguenoensis n. sp. and C. kanga Sjöstedt. I discuss climatic fluctuations of the past as the driving force for patterns of allopatric speciation found in several flightless Saltatoria taxa in East Africa.
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12 August 2009
Review of the East African Genus Chromothericles (Orthoptera: Eumastacoidea: Thericleidae): Data on Morphology, Distribution and Habitat, with the Description of Four New Species
Claudia Hemp
Journal of Orthoptera Research
Vol. 18 • No. 1
August 2009
Vol. 18 • No. 1
August 2009
Chromothericles
East Africa
Eumastacoidea
grasshoppers
new species
speciation