Bioacoustics of Amytta judithae

http://lsid.speciesfile.org/urn:lsid: Orthoptera .speciesfile.org:TaxonName:496653 Holotype male, Tanzania , North Pare Mountains , Mt Kindoroko , Kilomeni , shaken from understory trees in montane forest, 1800 m , February 2001 . Depository MfN . Paratype . 1 female , North Pare Mountains , same data as holotype but February 2011 . Depository MfN . Further paratype material: 3 males , 5 females , same data as holotype but April 2001 , November 2013 , August 2015 , July 2016 and December 2016 . Collection C. Hemp. Description . Male. General body shape and colour : Alate, small, uniformly light yellowish-green. Behind eyes only in some specimens with two lateral yellow lines continuing to pronotum. Eyes brown to reddish-brown. tegmina meeting median, along the vanal area with brownish lines. Head and antennae: Fastigium of vertex smooth and conical, shallowly sulcate above; conus between eyes less than half the size of first antennal segment. Antennae thin, whitish. Eyes circular, prominent. Cuticle of pronotum shiny with short scattered hairs. Tegmina about body length or slightly longer. Stridulatory area hidden under pronotum. Alae of same length than tegmina. Thorax and legs : Fore and mid tibiae with open tympanum, with 4–5 outer and inner spines, apical with a minute pair of spurs. Abdomen: Last abdominal tergite with elongated, strongly down-curved process ( Fig. 6 A–C). Cerci strongly laterally expanded with shovel-like outer branch and an inner branch which ends bifurcate ( Fig. 6 A–D). Subgenital plate longish with flattened styli ( Fig. 6 D, 7 F). Female. General body shape, size and colour as male. Ovipositor slender and smooth ( Fig. 5 B). Subgenital plate as in Fig. 8 I. Supra-anal plate with deep median groove ( Fig. 11 B). Measurements males (n = 4) Body length 10–13 Median length of pronotum 4.2–4.4 Length of hind femur 8.5–9.5 Length of elytra 8.0–9.5 females (n = 6) Body length 9.2–10.9 Median length of pronotum 4.1–4.2 Length of hind femur 8.6–9.2 Length of elytra 7.0–12.5 Length of ovipositor 7.8–8.2 Habitat . Tree and bush layer of montane forest, collected between 1600–1800 m .