Can someone tell us /confirm with us if really as we heard RPF thought to use Nyungwe forest for establishing returnee people in 1995-1998 and if these current researchers are aware that Swiss people were among the ones who fiercely fought to save that Nyungwe?
By the way, congratulations to UGZ1 with Dr Gasana et al., UGZ2 with Msc Munyarugerero et al., UGZ3 with Ir Nzamurambaho et al., and UGZ4 that convinced powers and villagers of otherwise the multiple interests in protecting Nyungwe where young researchers are performing current discoveries!
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Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 13:23:33 -0400
Subject: [fondationbanyarwanda] Tiny bush tiger from Rwanda: A new species of praying mantis
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Tiny bush tiger from Rwanda: A new species of praying mantis
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The new species was discovered on a cool and rainy night in a thick montane forest during a survey of the insects in Nyungwe National Park in southwestern Rwanda. The light traps used by the scientists attracted a male specimen of what then seemed as an unknown species of praying mantis, which unlike the female is winged and flew there attracted to the light.
When the scientists reached to the leaf litter they also found the female of what turned out to be the same new species. But the surprises of this lucky find did not finish there.
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The three-week Rwanda survey turned up a wealth of finds among which the bush tiger mantis was the only new species, but after 8 months of identifying the collected insects the researchers also found a dozen new to Rwanda.
"We knew this mantis was special after completing nearly eight months of work to identify all the specimens found during the three week expedition," said Riley, who is studying evolutionary biology at Case Western Reserve University. "The new species is amazing because the fairly small female prowls through the underbrush searching for prey while the male flies and appears to live higher in the vegetation."
"The new praying mantis species was found in the high altitude rain forest region of southwestern Rwanda and probably only lives within Nyungwe National Park, which adds significant justification for protecting the park to ensure species like this can continue to exist," said Dr. Gavin Svenson, curator of invertebrate zoology at The Cleveland Museum of Natural History and adjunct professor at Case Western Reserve University.
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Tedrow R, Nathan K, Richard N, Svenson GJ (2014) A new species of Dystacta Saussure, 1871 from Nyungwe National Park, Rwanda (Insecta, Mantodea, Dystactinae). ZooKeys 410: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-05/pp-tbt051614.php1. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.410.7053
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-05/pp-tbt051614.php
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