Pamphagidae (Orthoptera: Acridoidea) from the Palaearctic Region: taxonomy, classification, keys to genera and a review of the tribe Nocarodeini I. Bolívar
Author
Ünal, Mustafa
text
Zootaxa
2016
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4206.1.1
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Paranocarodes turkmen
Ünal, 2014
(
Figs. 48
,
97
,
266
,
362, 366
,
404
,
423–424
,
840
)
Paranocarodes turkmen
sp. nov.
:
Ünal 2014
: 2
.
Type locality.
Turkey: Eskişehir, Sündiken Mts.,
Türkmen
Tepesi.
Holotype:
male (AİBÜEM).
Material
examined.
TURKEY
:
Eskişehir
,
Sündiken Dağları
,
Türkmen
Tepesi
,
1524 m
,
4.6.2006
,
5♂
(including
Holotype
),
2♀
,
6.6.2006
,
1♂
(
Paratypes
)
;
Kütahya
,
Türkmen
Dağı
,
Söğüt Yaylası
,
1530 m
,
21.7.2003
,
1♀
,
1555 m
,
20.7.2004
,
1♀
,
1570 m
,
5.6.2006
,
1♀
(
paratypes
) (all leg.
M. Ünal
) (AİBÜEM) (
Ünal
2014
)
;
Eskişehir
,
Bozdağ
,
1410 m
,
15.7.2015
,
1♂
(leg.
M. Ünal
)
;
Eskişehir
,
1♀
(leg.
A. Y. Kılıç
) (AİBÜEM).
Distribution.
Known from
Eskişehir
and
Kütahya
provinces in the Sündiken and
Türkmen
Mountains (
Fig. 840
).
Remarks.
One female from
Türkmen
Dağı (
Kütahya
) has no tympanum, but another female collected one year later from the same place has a large tympanum as in all the other specimens of this species. There is no difference between these specimens except the tympanum. Interestingly a similar event is seen between
P. fieberi
and
P. karabagi
. Both species are very similar and the only distinct difference is the presence or absence of tympanum, but these two species are distributed separately and many populations have been found. Also some species of
Nocaracris
have tympanum in different stages of reduction (
N. furvus
s.l.
,
N. minutus
,
N. judithae
) even in the same species (
N. burri
,
N. rimansonae
). This character is not stable in the two genera,
Paranocarodes
and
Nocaracris
and considered sometimes a specific character or only a variation of a single species.