Songs in the genus Uromenus (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Ephippigerini): A review with new information about some species
Author
Heller, Klaus-Gerhard
Author
Puskás, Gellért
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Author
Szövényi, Gergely
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Department of Systematic Zoology and Ecology, ELTE, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, 1117, Hungary; gergely. szovenyi @ ttk. elte. hu; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 9632 - 4066
Author
Chobanov, Dragan P.
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Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1 Tsar Osvoboditel Boulevard, 1000 Sofia, Bulgaria. dchobanov @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 1642 - 0363
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Zootaxa
2021
2021-06-23
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Uromenus choumarae
Nadig, 1976
MOROCCO
, south of
Tizi’n Test
pass, 30.85885 N, 008.37760 W,
1940 m
a.s.l.
,
10 vi 2013
, leg.
D. Chobanov. The
male stridulatory file carries about 92 teeth (
Fig. 7
;
Tab. 2
).
In
the middle of the file the inter-tooth intervals are about
77 µm
.
Morphology.
The species was described under (sub-)genus
Steropleurus
and classified together with
S.
(now
Uromenus
)
cockerelli
Uvarov,
1931
in the
Cockerelli
Species group (
Nadig 1995
).
U. choumarae
is typical with very long incurved male cerci with longer, basally very wide basal part (before the tooth) and much shorter and narrower apical part bearing a small sharp tooth at the tip (
Fig. 10G
1–2
). Male 10th tergum, epiproct and titillators are shown on
Fig. 10G
1–2
and
Fig. 11H
.
FIGURE 9.
Female tegmina in
Uromenus
.
A—
U. elegans
(Crete)
, B—
U. dyrrhachiacus
,
C
—
U. rugosicollis
, D—
U. agarenus
,
E—
U. finoti
,
F
—
U. tobboganensis
and G—
U. innocentii
. Note the long stridulatory vein on the upper side of the right tegmen crossing the mirror-like translucent tegmen membrane.
Ecology.
The species was collected close to its
type
locality (Tizi’n Test pass) where it was common. The nymphs and young adults kept on bushes of
Argyrocytisus battandieri
and on
Echinops
sp.
at the steep southern slopes of the southwestern High Atlas Mountains (
Fig. 1T
). The high altitude of its locality with south exposition defines cooler Köppen climate
type
CSb (Warm-summer mediterranean) towards DSb (Warm-summer mediterranean continental)(
Verner
et al
. 2018
). The species is possibly overlooked and may have broad range in the southwestern High Atlas.