A new genus of African Acrometopini (Tettigoniidae: Phaneropterinae) based on morphology, chromosomes, acoustics, distribution, and molecular data, and the description of a new species

Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 158, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 66-82

  Hemp, Claudia ^a   Voje, Kjetil Lysne ^b   Heller, Klaus Gerhard ^c   Warchałowska Śliwa, Elzbieta ^d   Hemp, Andreas ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^d INSTITUTE OF SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTION OF ANIMALS   (Poland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Altihoratosphaga; Bush crickets; Horatosphaga; Montane forest; Speciation; Tanzania

Indexed keywords

CANNABIS; CANNABIS SATIVA; PHANEROPTERINAE; TETTIGONIIDAE;

EID: 74849120267     PISSN: 00244082     EISSN: 10963642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00542.x     Document Type: Article

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