Tettigoniinae (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) from South-West of Turkey, with an incognito new species and comments on the genus Eupholidoptera
Author
Ünal, Mustafa
M. Ünal, Bolu Abant İzzet Baysal Üniversitesi, Fen-Edebiyat Fakütesi, Biyoloji Bölümü, Bolu 14030, Turkey.
Author
Gorochov, Andrei V.
A. V. Gorochov, Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 1 Universitetskaya Emb., St Petersburg 199034, Russia.
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Zootaxa
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5474.1.2
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Eupholidoptera helina
Çıplak, 2009
syn. nov.
(Figs. 31a, b)
Material examined.
TURKEY
:
İzmir Prov.
,
Bayındır Distr.
, bank of small branch of
Küçük Menderes River
near
Balcılar Vill.
,
38°16.453´N
,
27°34.134´E
, 250 m,
17.9.2011
,
3 males
,
1 female
(leg.
M. Ünal
&
A. Gorochov
) (
AİBÜEM
)
;
Selçuk Distr.
, bank of
Devrent River
near
Havutçulu Vill.
,
37°52.748´N
,
27°25.891´E
, 160 m, at night,
15.9.2011
,
1 female
(leg.
M. Ünal
&
A. Gorochov
) (
AİBÜEM
)
;
İzmir Prov.
,
Menderes Distr.
,
Ataköy
,
Karacadağ
,
38°04.385´N
,
27°08.438´E
, 345 m,
16.9.2011
,
1 female
(leg.
M. Ünal
&
A. Gorochov
) (
AİBÜEM
)
;
Muğla prov.
,
Köyceğiz Distr.
,
Yuvarlakçay River
near
Beyobası Vill.
,
Topgöz
,
36°56.742´N
,
28°48.504´E
, 437 m,
12.9.2011
,
2 males
(leg.
M. Ünal
&
A. Gorochov
) (
AİBÜEM
)
;
Antalya Prov.
,
Central Distr.
, ~
15 km W of
Antalya
City
, bank of
Geyikbayırı River
,
36°52.417´N
,
30°29.100´E
, 376 m, at night,
17.8.2018
, 1 femae (leg.
M. Ünal
)
;
18.8.2018
,
1 female
(leg. M. Ünal);
19.8.2018
,
1 female
(leg. M. Ünal); 10–
11.7.2023
,
2 males
,
3 females
(leg. M. Ünal);
Antalya Prov.
,
Alanya Distr.
,
Alara Han
,
21.6.1997
,
1 male
(leg.
M. Ünal
) (
AİBÜEM
)
;
Antalya Prov.
,
Alanya Distr.
, ~
30 km WNW of Alanya City
, environs of
Okurcalar Vill.
, at night, 29.9–
10.10.1994
,
1 male
,
4 females
(leg.
A. Gorochov
) (
ZIN
)
;
GREECE
:
Rhodos
, b. stadt.
Rhodos
,
1 male
(dry) (leg.
Oertzen
) (
MfN
)
.
Remarks.
E. helina
was described by Çıplak (in
Çıplak
et al.
2009: 25
) and separated from the closest species
E. smyrnensis
and
E. cypria
by the details of male titillator which is mainly match with widely distributed
E. smyrnensis
. It seems that the morphological characteristics including stridulatory file are not so distinct and not helpful for these species. Ünal collected a male from Alara Han and Gorochov collected
1 male
4 females
from Okurcalar where are very close to the
type
locality of
E. helina
. These specimens (males) identical with a male collected from Rhodos where is the
type
locality of
Eupholidoptera smyrnensis festae
(Giglio-Tos, 1914)
. It is clear that they are conspecific.
E. festae
was described by Giglio-Tos (1914: 5, 6) as two different species (in two genera) with the same name,
“
festae
”. It was firstly treated as a subspecies of
E. chabrieri
by
Ramme (1930: 809)
, later as a subspecies of
E. smyrnensis
(
Ramme 1951: 205
)
. Harz (1969: 373) and Willemse (1980: 59) gave it a synonym of
E. smyrnensis
. All the subsequent authors, followed Harz and Willemse. The specimens, including ones from Alanya studied here and the titillators of
E. smyrnensis
(and
festae
) given in literature (
Ramme 1951: 208
, Harz 1969: 375, Willemse 1980: 62,
Salman 1983: 329
,
Çıplak
et al.
2009: 35
) show its variation limits. So the titillator of
E. helina
is not out of these limits. In addition, the new distributional records given in the present paper from Muğla and different parts of
Antalya Province
, show the dispersal connection.
E. smyrnensis
is widely distributed in eastern
Greece
and known from European
Turkey
along the Aegean Region to
Antalya
. It is recorded from
İzmir
,
Muğla
Provinces to Alara river of Alanya District (
Antalya Province
) in the present paper.