Conservation status of the elegant yellow-black bush-cricket Meruterrana elegans (Orthoptera: Phaneropterinae)—a critically endangered species on Mount Kenya

Abstract

Two populations of Meruterrana elegans, a monotypic bush-cricket genus, endemic to Mount Kenya in Kenya were surveyed. The species is restricted to Cassipourea forest, a forest community vanishing rapidly on Mount Kenya and with it Meruterrana elegans, which therefore should be included to the IUCN red list of threatened species as Critically Endangered.

Keywords: Red list, insects, East Africa