Bioacoustics and systematics of Mecopoda (and related forms) from South East Asia and adjacent areas (Orthoptera, Tettigonioidea, Mecopodinae) including some chromosome data
Author
Heller, Klaus-Gerhard
Grillenstieg 18, 39120 Magdeburg, Germany
Author
Baker, Ed
Department of Electronic Engineering, University of York, York, YO 10 5 DD, United Kingdom & Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, SW 7 5 BD, United Kingdom.
Author
Ingrisch, Sigfrid
Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, Adenauerallee 160, D- 53113, Bonn, Germany.
Author
Korsunovskaya, Olga
Lomonosov Moscow State University; Leninskie Gory, 1, building 12, Moscow, 119234, Russia.
Author
Liu, Chun-Xiang
0000-0002-6313-196X
Key Laboratory of the Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. iucx @ ioz. ac. cn; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6313 - 196 X
iucx@ioz.ac.cn
Author
Riede, Klaus
Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, Adenauerallee 160, D- 53113, Bonn, Germany.
Author
Warchałowska-Šliwa, Elżbieta
0000-0001-7812-1644
Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków, Poland. warchalowska @ isez. pan. krakow. pl; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 7812 - 1644
warchalowska@isez.pan.krakow.pl
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Zootaxa
2021
2021-07-26
5005
2
101
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journal article
2565
10.11646/zootaxa.5005.2.1
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Mecopoda macassariensis
(
Haan, 1843
)
stat. rev.
Holotype
male,
RMNH
.INS.1256442 (
Indonesia
,
Sulawesi
,
Makassar
). NBC.
From its broad mirror area (length/width = 1.44), the species belongs to the
niponensis
subgroup. In tooth number (93) and inter-tooth distances it is very similar to
M. himalaya
(
Fig. 11
,
12
). Since
M. himalaya
is quite widespread, both names could refer to the same species with
macassariensis
having priority.
However, even species with quite similar files can have very different songs (see below;
M. fallax
and
M. s.
stridulata
). Since wrong combining is more difficult to restore than wrong splitting, we remain on the safe side and consider at the moment
M. macassariensis
as a species endemic to
Sulawesi
. Data on its song are urgently needed.