Nocaracris furvus subsp. furvus Mistshenko 1951, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Ünal, Mustafa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Pamphagidae
Nocaracris
Nocaracris furvus
Nocaracris furvus furvus (mistshenko, 1951)

description: Nocaracris furvus furvus (Mistshenko, 1951) comb. nov.
(Figs. 538, 541, 549, 618–620, 843)
Nocarodes cyanipes Fisch de W.: Werner 1901: 282, partim.
Oronothrotes furvus sp. nov.: Mistshenko 1951: 520.
Nocaracris burri obscurata n. subsp.: Ramme 1951: 300, 427. syn. nov.
Nocaracris burri obscurata Ramme, 1951: Karabağ 1958: 120; Otte 1994: 172.
Paranocaracris burri obscurata (Ramme, 1951): Weidner 1969: 162.
Oronothrotes furvus Mistshenko, 1951: Bey-Bienko & Mistshenko 1951: 348; Karabağ 1958: 119; Weidner 1969: 159; Demirsoy 1973: 414, partim; Demirsoy 1977: 67, partim; Salman 1978: 66; Presa & Garcia 1983: 20; Otte 1994: 178.
Type locality. Turkey: İzmir, Bozdağ. Holotype: male (ZIN).
Material examined. TURKEY: Anatolien, 1869, 1♂ (Holotype) (leg. Lederer) (ZIN); Asia Minor, [İzmir], Odemis, Mt. Bos Dagh [Bozdağ], c. 5500 ft, 27.6.1938, 1♂ (Holotype of Nocaracris burri obscurata), 2♂, 2♀ (Paratypes of Nocaracris burri obscurata) (leg. R. E. Gathorne-Hardy) (NHMUK); Anatolia, Odemis [Ödemiş], Boz dag, 1300–1900 m, 16.8.1950, 1♀ (leg. P. H. Davis) (NHMUK); İzmir, Bozdağ, 1500–2000 m, 12.6.2014, 6♂, 2♀, plus 2♂, 1♀ in alcohol (leg. M. Ünal, A. G. Bugrov & I. E. Jetybayev) (AİBÜEM); Denizli, Babadağ, 1580– 1600 m, 13.6.2014, 10♂, 3♀, plus 4♂, 1♀ in alcohol (leg. M. Ünal, A. G. Bugrov & I. E. Jetybayev) (AİBÜEM); [İzmir], Bos-Dagh [Bozdağ], 1♂ (leg. Lederer) (det. Cejchan, 1967 as Paranocaracris burri obscurata) (NMW); Bos-Dagh b. Smyrna [Bozdağ, İzmir], 2♀ (leg. Lederer) (det. Br. v.W. as Nocarodes cyanipes) (det. Ramme as Nocaracris burri and det. Cejchan, 1967 as Paranocaracris burri obscurata) (NMW); Amasia, 1♂ (det. Ramme as Nocaracris burri) (NMW).
Distribution. W. Turkey: İzmir: Bozdağ, Denizli: Babadağ (Fig. 843).
Remarks. Mistshenko (1951a: 520) described this species from one male from Anatolia without exact locality. Demirsoy (1973: 414; 1977: 66) recorded and described one female from Ersis, Artvin province in N.E. Turkey. According to Salman (1978: 66) the female recorded by Demirsoy is a nymph of Paranocaracris elegans Mistshenko and thereby Oronothrotes furvus might be a synonym of P. elegans. Both authors assumed that Oronothrotes furvus is found in the northeastern end of Turkey. On the other hand Ramme (1951: 300) described Nocaracris burri obscurata Ramme, 1951 with both sexes from Bozdağ, İzmir Province, W. Turkey. The study on the type material of N. burri obscurata in the NHMUK allowed to ascertain that it is certainly conspecific with Oronothrotes furvus. Thus the exact location of this species appeares to be in the western end of Turkey, contrary to previous expectations. Mistshenko (1951a) has the priority over Ramme (1951) (see Material methods). There are several specimens in the NMW (see Material examined) collected by Lederer from Bozdağ, İzmir. Very probably the holotype of this species collected by Lederer (ZIN) was also found in Bozdağ, İzmir. Moreover I have collected the typical forms of this species from Bozdağ. Therefore I propose the type locality of this species is Bozdağ, in İzmir Province of Turkey.
Nocaracris burri obscurata Ramme, 1951 was overlooked by Demirsoy (1973, 1977) and Presa & Garcia (1983). Although no author published this subspecies as “ Paranocaracris rubripes obscurata (Ramme, 1951) ” Eades et al. (2016) gave it in this combination.
Ramme (1951) in describing N. burri obscurata did not mention its tympanum despite the type specimens have distinct tympanum. He distinguished it from N. burri by the coloration.
One male from Amasya agrees with this species, it is impossible to be in Amasya province, the label must be mistakenly attached (see also the Remarks sections of P. straubei and N. burri).
description: Published as part of Ünal, Mustafa, 2016, Pamphagidae (Orthoptera: Acridoidea) from the Palaearctic Region: taxonomy, classification, keys to genera and a review of the tribe Nocarodeini I. Bolívar, pp. 1-223 in Zootaxa 4206 (1) on pages 136-140, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4206.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/208260