Review of the Balkan Isophya (Orthoptera: Phaneropteridae) with particular emphasis on the Isophya modesta group and remarks on the systematics of the genus based on morphological and acoustic data
Author
Dragan P. Chobanov
Author
Beata Grzywacz
Author
Ionuţ Ş. Iorgu
Author
Battal Cιplak
Author
Maya B. Ilieva
Author
Elżbieta Warchałowska-Śliwa
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Zootaxa
2013
3658
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.3658.1.1
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Isophya clara
Ingrisch et Pavi
ć
evi
ć,
2010
(
Figs 39
,
64
,
88
,
113
,
144
,
192
)
Isophya clara
Ingrisch & Pavićević
: Ingrisch and Pavićević 2010 (sp.n.).
Morphological description and bioacoustics
: Ingrisch and Paviċeviċ 2010, 2012.
Diagnosis
: Ingrisch and Paviċeviċ (2010) diagnoze
I. clara
comparing it with
I. modesta
(and
I. modestior
— for differences see the latter paper), from which it clearly differs in song, consisting of groups of much shorter and uninterrupted syllables, pronotum and tegmen shape, number of stridulatory teeth, cercus tooth and ovipositor shape. However, in size, morphology (compare
Figs 39
,
64
,
88
,
113
,
144
with 40, 65, 89, 114, 150, 151) and song (compare Ingrisch and Paviċeviċ 2010:
Fig. 5
A, B with present paper,
Fig. 156
), this species much resembles
I. miksici
, from which it seems to be isolated by the river Morava in
Serbia
. At similar air temperature, the song of
I. clara
cannot be differentiated by that of
I. miksici
, either using syllable duration, number of impulses or impulse interval. Unfortunately, the description lacks exact data on the number of syllables in the groups and the syllables’ interval.
I. clara
may be differentiated by
I. miksici
on account of the pronotum shape (usually with more sinuately expanded metazone in
I. miksici
), the relative size of the cercal tooth (larger and longer in “typical”
I. clara
). The shape of tegmina in
I. clara
vary (see Ingrisch and Paviċeviċ 2010), which does not allow us to make comparison with other taxa and leaves the possibility of including more than one taxon within this species. This is especially true for the specimens from the region of Belgrade showing even bigger similarity with
I. miksici
.
Distribution (
Fig. 192
) and phenology
: This species is herewith for the first time recorded from
Bosnia and Herzegovina
(see Appendix and under
I. obtusa
), and already known from
Montenegro
, Northern
Kosovo
, and Western
Serbia
north to Belgrade. Its phenology is not known but possibly resembles that of
I. miksici
(see below). The imagines are collected from May to August (see Ingrisch and Paviċeviċ 2010), thus nymphs emerge probably in March–April.