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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Isophya longicaudata adamovici
Peshev, 1985
(
Figs 42
,
67
,
91
,
116
,
153
,
158, 159
,
192
)
Isophya pravdini adamovici
Peshev
: Peshev 1985 (ssp.n.).
Isophya longicaudata adamovici
Peshev
: Chobanov 2009a (comb.n.).
Morphological description
: see the references above.
Bioacoustics
: Chobanov 2009a.
Karyotype
: Warchałowska- Śliwa
et al.
2008 (as
I. modesta longicaudata
).
Diagnosis
: see Chobanov 2009a. This subspecies shows more primitive features than the nominate one that are transitional to those of
I. plevnensis
. The differences from
I. l. longicaudata
are as follows: CuP is shorter and less thick; lateral margins of metazone stronger S-shaped, ovipositor shorter (about
18 mm
after Peshev 1985; in
I. longicaudata
usually>
20 mm
); male song consists of shorter syllables (400–850 ms at 27–28°C) with 58–75 impulses and less clearly differentiated parts. The first syllable part (when distinct) was 285–326 ms long with 43– 64 impulses and impulse period of 5–20 ms, the second part—250–494 ms with 9–19 impulses and impulse period of 11–108 ms (Chobanov 2009a).
Distribution (
Fig. 192
) and phenology
: Until now the subspecies is known only from the high parts of Eastern Stara Planina Mountains in
Bulgaria
between 800 and
1200 m
altitude where it was found in lush mesophyte grass habitats. Nymphs—IV–VI, imago—VI–VIII.