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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Genus:
Haplotropis
Saussure, 1888
Saussure, 1888
: 122, 125. Type species:
Haplotropis brunneriana
Saussure, 1888
.
Humphaplotropis
Xiao, Yin & Yin, 2013
(Type species:
Humphaplotropis taishanensis
Xiao, Yin & Yin, 2013
)
confirmed syn.
Remarks.
The genus
Haplotropis
Saussure
was reviewed by
Storozhenko & Paik (2011)
, who studied the genus in detail and proposed some new synonyms of the genus and species.
Humphaplotropis
was recently established by Xiao, Yin & Yin (2013: 87) for a single new species,
Humphaplotropis taishanensis
Xiao, Yin & Yin, 2013
. Xiao
et al.
(2013) cited
Storozhenko & Paik (2011)
, but did not discuss their results. The only stated difference of
Humphaplotropis
from
Haplotropis
is the structure of pronotum which strongly arcuate with prolonged anterior and posterior margins (Xiao
et al.
2013), but the arcuated pronotum alone cannot be a generic character unless there are important differences in the male phallic complex. There are many species with similar shape of pronotum (arcuate) in one genus which have also species with straighter and lower pronotum. For instance, some species of the genus
Saxetania
Mistshenko
such as
Saxetania decumana
Mistshenko, 1951
and
S. scutata
Mistshenko, 1951
have strongly arcuated pronotum with strongly prolonged anterior and posterior margins, some other species such as
Saxetania uvarovi
Mistshenko, 1951
and
S. paramonovi
Mistshenko, 1951
have much straighter and lower pronotum, but undoubtedly they belong to the same genus. A similar variation of pronotum can be seen in the genus
Paranocarodes
I. Bolívar. While
P. straubei
(
Fieber, 1853
)
has strongly arcuate pronotum,
P. beieri
(
Ramme, 1951
)
and
P. brevipes
Ramme, 1951
have much straighter and lower pronotum. This variation is seen even in a single species as
incristata
forms (see
Paranocarodes fieberi
Brunner
). Moreover, three additional new species of
Humphaplotropis
have been described very recently, all of which have pronotum clearly less raised and much straighter (Li,
Cao & Yin, 2014
;
Zhi, Shi & Dai, 2015
) as in the genus
Haplotropis
(compare
Storozhenko & Paik 2011
). I think that these are additional species of
Haplotropis
, but some of them should be confirmed and compared with
Haplotropis brunneriana
Saussure.
Storozhenko
et al.
(2015
: 182)
very recently synonymized the genus
Humphaplotropis
,
which is here confirmed.
The listed species below are given in the genus
Haplotropis
, two of them in new combinations because of the synonymy of their original genus,
Humphaplotropis
:
Haplotropis taishanensis
(Xiao, Yin & Yin, 2013)
Haplotropis culaishanensis
(Li,
Cao & Yin, 2014
)
Haplotropis hebeiensis
(
Zhi, Shi & Dai, 2015
)
comb. nov.
Haplotropis xiai
(
Zhi, Shi & Dai, 2015
)
comb. nov.