Pamphagidae (Orthoptera: Acridoidea) from the Palaearctic Region: taxonomy, classification, keys to genera and a review of the tribe Nocarodeini I. Bolívar
Author
Ünal, Mustafa
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Zootaxa
2016
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4206.1.1
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Ocneridia volxemii
(Bolívar, 1878)
Material examined.
As
Ocneridia volxemii
(Bolívar, 1878)
: MOROCCO:
Melilla
[
Spanish
territory], 6.1909,
1♀
(
Holotype
of
O. melillensis
Bol.
) (leg.
Arias
) (
MNCN
)
; ALGERIA:
Algerien
,
Sambere Timgad
,
1300 m
,
1♂
,
1♀
(leg.
S. G. Schaposchnikoff
) (AİBÜEM)
;
Algeria
,
Djelfa
,
2.5.1942
,
3♂
,
1♀
;
Boghari
(
Boghary
),
1.5.1942
,
4♂
,
8♀
; 4.1942, 1♂, 3♀; 5.1942, 2♀;
Algeria
,
Saida
,
29.5.1942
,
2♀
;
Algeria
,
Hautes Plateaux
,
Tablat
,
1♂
,
1♀
(all leg.
M.N. Korsakoff
) (
NHMUK
)
;
Alger
,
1♂
(det.
F. Zeuner
as
Ocneridia
sp.) (
NHMUK
).
As
Ocneridia longicornis
(Bolívar, 1878)
:
ALGERIA
: Prov. de
Constantine
,
1♀
(
Syntype
) (
NHMUK
)
; MOROCCO: Guenfouda,
Marruecos
Francés,
9.5.1949
,
1♂
,
1♀
(leg.
E. Morales
) (AİBÜEM)
; 1♀ (det. Ebner) (MfN).
Remarks.
Bolívar (1878b: 69)
in his original description stated for this species “Absque elytris” (without elytra) and for the species
Ocneridia longicornis
(
Bolívar 1878b: 70
)
“elytris in
♂
brevissimis a pronoto subobtectis, in
♀
nullis” (elytra in
♂
short, veiled under pronotum, in
♀
no).
Uvarov (1943: 346)
synonymized
O. longicornis
with this species for the first time.
Presa & Garcia (1983: 19)
,
Massa & Biondi (1987: 175)
agreed with the synonymy. But,
O. volxemii
is distinguished from
O. longicornis
by the absence of tegmina in both sexes (male always, female sometimes with small tegmina
in
O. longicornis
), the body surface (especially outer surface of hind femur) quite smooth with blunter tubercles (body distinctly with sharp tubercles in
O. longicornis
), the more arcuate median carina of pronotum (straighter in
O. longicornis
), the body surface mostly but not always with greenish shades (body surface always with brownish shades in
O. longicornis
). They may be different taxa (species or subspecies). However, I have studied only
4 specimens
of
O. longicornis
here and I give the specimens of both taxa separately in the Material examined section for further studies.