Revision of the genus Prionotropis Fieber, 1853 (Orthoptera: Pamphagidae: Thrinchinae)
Author
Massa, Bruno
Author
Ünal, Mustafa
Author
Verde, Gabriella Lo
text
Zootaxa
2015
4059
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journal article
39213
10.11646/zootaxa.4059.3.4
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Prionotropis azami
Uvarov, 1923
new status
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Material examined
.
France
, Broves (♂
holotype
,
1♂
, 5♀
paratypes
);
France
, Broves
2.VII.1906
(coll. Azam) (
5♂
);
France
, Broves
2.VIII.1906
(
1♂
);
France
, Broves 1924, Berland (
1♂
);
France
, Broves
VII.1905
(5♀);
France
, Broves
5.VII.1964
(1♀);
France
, Var, Les Arc, G. de Vichet (
1♂
);
France
, Plan des Canjuers
VII.1947
, Delmas (
1♂
, 1♀);
France
, Plan des Canjuers
14.VII.1907
(coll. Azam) (
8♂
, 3♀);
France
, Plan des Conjuers
29.VII.1962
, G. Colas (
2♂
);
France
, Plan des Conjuers, Aiguines
8.VII.1955
(
7♂
, 3♀);
France
, Plan des Conjuers, Aiguines
18.VI.1991
, A. Foucart (
2♂
, 4♀);
France
, Rhone delta, Mt St Victoire, Col des Perves
15.VI.1991
, A. Foucart (
8♂
, 10♀) (
MNHN
);
France
, Rhone delta, Mt St Victoire
16–18.VI.1991
, A. Foucart (
5♂
, 7♀) (
CBGP
);
France
, Broves
14.VII.1907
(
1♂
, 1♀
paratypes
) (NHM);
France
, Var, North of Pzin, Poumiels
15.VI.1991
, A.
Foucart (
2♂
);
France
, Var, Plan des Conjuers, Aiguines
VI.1991
, A. Foucart (
2♂
, 5♀);
France
, Bouches du Rhône, Vicraine
18.VI.1991
, A. Foucart (
6♂
, 1♀);
France
, Bouches du Rhône, Sambuc
16.VI.1991
, A. Foucart (
2♂
, 5♀);
France
, Bouches du Rhône, Panves
16.VI.1991
, A. Foucart (3♀);
France
, Var, Riani
15.VI.1991
, A. Foucart (
1♂
) (NHM).
FIGURES 38–44.
Lateral view of the epiphallus of
Prionotropis hystrix
(38),
P. azami
(39),
P. rhodanica
(40),
P. appula
(41),
P. flexuosa
(42),
P. willemsorum
n. sp.
(43) and
P. maculinervis
(44).
Remarks and distribution
. See also
P. rhodanica
. This taxon differs from the nearby occurring
P. rhodanica
by pronotum shape, tegmina shape and length, and spines of abdominal tergites, both in males and females. Actually, we believe that
P. a z am i
,
P. rhodanica
,
P. hystrix
,
P. appula
and
P. willemsorum
n. sp.
constitute a group of related species, very probably of Balkanic origin.
Measurements.
see
Table 1
. Biometric ratios lie in the group
hystrix
/
flexuosa
/
maculinervis
, but the ratio length of tegmina of males/length of tegmina of females is similar only to that of
P. hystrix
and
P. rhodanica
(
Figs 65–68
). For the considerations reported above, we think that
P. az a m i
is not really related to
P. hystrix
and may be considered a valid species, well separated from the nearly cohabiting
P. rhodanica
.