Gonatoxia immaculata Karsch, 1889

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 : 340

Gonatoxia immaculata Karsch, 1889

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Distribution: Tanzania, East Usambara Mountains (Karsch 1888c).

Habitat: Lowland forest.

Remarks.— The genus Gonatoxia contains two species, G. immaculata and G. maculata Karsch. Both taxa are only known from their holotypes. Also various entomological collections usually do not hold many specimens of these two species. Hemp (2013a) listed G. maculata from Mt Kilimanjaro from a single male caught in relictal riverine forest. Lately more material became available from Mt Kilimanjaro and the adjacent situated mountain range of the North Pares. On Mt Kilimanjaro G. maculata occurred plentiful from April to June 2013 in tree savanna habitats at the eastern slopes around Lake Chala at 1000 m a.s.l. and in savanna plains at West Kilimanjaro around Lerongo at around 1300 m a.s.l. In the North Pare Mountains G. maculata specimens were caught from trees and bushes in dense tree savanna at the southern foothills near Lembeni. Males can be located at night by their song. G. maculata specimens were also collected by FRONTIER Tanzania in January/ February 1991 in the Kazimzumbwi forest reserve near Dar es Salaam (collection ZMUC).