Review of the Balkan Isophya (Orthoptera: Phaneropteridae) with particular emphasis on the Isophya modesta group and remarks on the systematics of the genus based on morphological and acoustic data
Author
Dragan P. Chobanov
Author
Beata Grzywacz
Author
Ionuţ Ş. Iorgu
Author
Battal Cιplak
Author
Maya B. Ilieva
Author
Elżbieta Warchałowska-Śliwa
text
Zootaxa
2013
3658
1
1
81
journal article
39033
10.11646/zootaxa.3658.1.1
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1175-5326
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3.4. Complex
Isophya modesta
Under this grouping we place most of the species of
I. modesta
group. Their distribution covers the Northern Balkan Peninsula (Northern
Montenegro
, Eastern
Bosnia
and
Hercegovina
, Northern
Kosovo
,
Serbia
, North
Bulgaria
,
Romania
,
Hungary
,
Slovakia
,
Ukraine
, reaching the region of Kursk in the southern European part of
Russia
.
The complex is characterised by a large to very large body for the genus, with a massive habit. CuP vein is wide, frequently very bulged and long, except in
I. miksici
and
I. clara
, where it may be similar to that in
I. bureschi
; in the other taxa it is>3/4 to almost equal to the width of metazone. Following west-east direction the disc of tegmina in the different taxa undergoes modification from greenish and slightly bulged to yellowish-brown and distinctly bulged (especially in
I. longicaudata
). The stridulatory file bears between 55 and 160 teeth. The cercal tooth is pointed but short and wide contrary to the above described taxa. The song in taxa occurring in the western part of the range consists of groups of short syllables (similar to that of
I. andreevae
) getting to the east consisted of single, long, almost compact (in
I. longicaudata
) or split into two parts (in
I. modesta
) syllables. After the revision made the complex includes 7 taxa of 5 species:
I. clara
,
I. miksici
,
I. plevnensis
sensu novo,
I. longicaudata adamovici
,
I. longicaudata longicaudata
,
I. modesta modesta
and
I. modesta rossica
.