Parapyrrhicia zanzibarica Brunner, 1891

Hemp, Claudia, Heller, Klaus-Gerhard, Warchałowska-Śliwa, Elżbieta, Grzywacz, Beata & Hemp, Andreas, 2017, Review of the East African species of the phaneropterine genus Parapyrrhicia Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1891 (Insecta: Orthoptera): secret communication of a forest-bound taxon, Organisms Diversity & Evolution (New York, N. Y.) 17 (1), pp. 231-250 : 233

Parapyrrhicia zanzibarica Brunner v. Wattenwyl, 1891

Pyrrhicia zanzibarica Brunner v. Wattenwyl, 1891 syn. n. (see above).

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Material studied: 1 female, Tanzania, East Usambara Mountains , Sigi Trail, coll. Jago, July 1965 ( BMNH) ; 1 female, Tanzania, East Usambara Mountains , Amani, leg. Jago, July 1965 ( BMNH) ; 2 females, Tanzania, East Usambara Mountains , Sigi Trail, March 2012 and November 2015 , leg. C Hemp (collection C Hemp); 1 male, 1 female, Tanzania, East Usambara Mountains , Nilo forest reserve, April 2016 , leg. C Hemp (collection C Hemp).

Brunner von Wattenwyl (1891) erected the genus Parapyrrhicia on P. zanzibarica on a single female from Zanzibar. The type is lost. Ragge (1980) reviewed specimens probably belonging to this genus and species and assigned them to P. zanzibarica but stating that he was not sure that they are conspecific with Brunner’ s P. zanzibarica . We here refer to those specimens in the British Museum which Ragge (1980) assigned to P. zanzibarica coming from the East Usambara Mountains of Tanzania.