Ducetia biramosa (Karsch, 1888)

Hemp, Claudia, 2013, Annotated list of Tettigoniidae (Orthoptera) from the East Usambara Mountains Tanzania and new Tettigoniidae species from East Africa, Zootaxa 3737 (4), pp. 301-350 : 336-337

Ducetia biramosa (Karsch, 1888)

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Distribution: Coastal Tanzania (Ragge 1961).

Habitat: Herbaceus vegetation along forest edges and grasslands with scattered bushes and trees.

Remarks: Ragge (1961) recorded this species also from Morogoro and around Dar es Salaam. D. biramosa was also found further north in herbaceous vegetation of disturbed coastal forest near Pangani and at the foothills of the East Usambara Mountains in vegetation fringing the roadside between Muheza and Zigi. The spirit collection of the zoological museum Copenhagen also holds male specimens of this species from the Kazimzumbi forest reserve in the Kisarawe district near Dar es Salaam caught in January/ February 1991.