New data on the distribution of the genus Roeseliana Zeuner, 1941 (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae, Tettigoniinae) in the southwestern Balkans, with description of R. epirotica n. sp.
Author
Lemonnier-Darcemont, Michèle
Groupement d’Études entomologiques Méditerranée (G. E. E. M.), PO BOX 60 GR- 48060 Parga (Greece)
lemonniergeem@free.fr
Author
Darcemont, Christian
Groupement d’Études entomologiques Méditerranée (G. E. E. M.), PO BOX 60 GR- 48060 Parga (Greece)
darcemont@free.fr
text
Zoosystema
2023
2023-07-26
45
14
445
450
journal article
59549
10.5252/zoosystema2023v45a14
f51797fb-dd17-45d3-a90d-726c12c35f18
1638-9387
8200298
4A49B696-2E7F-437E-8368-A361B82C13AE
KEY
TO
SPECIES
OF
ROESELIANA
ZEUNER
, 1941
IN
THE
SOUTHWESTERN
BALKANS
Females
1. Sternum 6 and 7 with bumps .................................................................................
R. bispina
(
Bolivar, 1899
)
— Sternum 6 and 7 not modified .................................................................................................................... 2
2. Subgenital plate trapezoidal in shape, wider than high, the lobes truncated horizontally. Narrow and shallow excision between the two lobes ............................................................................................
R. epirotica
n. sp.
— Subgenital plate widened with lobes slightly pointed. Deep and large excision of the subgenital plate ......... 3
3. Lobes of subgenital plates almost triangular in shape. Excision of the subgenital plate reaching beyond the middle ..............................................................................................................
R. roeselii
(Hagenbach, 1822)
— Lobes more rounded on external part. Excision of the subgenital plate reaching at most to the middle .......... ............................................................................................................................
R. ambitiosa
(
Uvarov, 1924
)
Males
1. Last tergite indented over a narrow width. Internal tooth of cerci longer than width of cercus at the point of insertion of the tooth. Tooth bent forward ......................................................................................
R. roeselii
— Last tergite indented over a large width. Internal tooth of cerci as most as long as the width of cercus at the point of insertion of the tooth. Tooth not bent, more rounded .................................................................... 2
2. Titillators slightly curved .............................................................................................................
R. ambitiosa
— Titillators strongly curved with the apex in the shape of a beak ................................................................... 3
3. A very few number of spines, only located on the apex of the titillators ...............................
R. epirotica
n. sp.
— A larger number of spines on the titillators, from the base to the apex ............................................
R. bispina