Paranocarodes straubei Fieber 1853
Creators: name: Ünal, Mustafa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Pamphagidae
Paranocarodes
Paranocarodes straubei

description: Paranocarodes straubei (Fieber, 1853)
(Figs. 42, 344, 369–370, 391–392, 396, 411–412, 840)
Pamphagus Straubei Fieber: Fieber 1853: 127, partim.
Pamphagus (Nocarodes) Straubei Fieb.: Stål 1876: 29.
P[amphagus] Straubei Fisch.: I. Bolívar 1878a: 439, under the genus Nocarodes.
Nocarodes Straubei Fieber: Brunner von Wattenwyl 1882: 188, 189; Werner 1901: 282, partim; Jacobson 1905: 200, 298, sensu Bey-Bienko & Mistshenko 1951; I. Bolívar 1912: 7; Kirby 1910: 355, partim.
Paranocarodes straubei (Fieber, 1853): I. Bolívar 1916: 23; Uvarov 1949a: 5; Karabağ 1958: 115; Weidner 1969: 158; Harz 1975: 151, partim; Presa & Garcia 1983: 25; Heller et al. 1998: 61; Jabbari et al. 2015: 37.
Paranocarodes straubei Fieb.: Ebner 1919: 173, partim; Ramme, 1951: 278, 279.
Paranocarodes straubei (Fieb.): Bey-Bienko & Mistshenko 1951: 341.
Paranocarodes sp.: Karabağ et al. 1971: 86, partim.
Paranocarodes straubei straubei (Fieber, 1853): Demirsoy 1973: 410, 411, partim; Harz 1975: 154; Demirsoy 1977: 62, partim; Otte 1994: 185; Willemse & Willemse 2008: 42.
Paranocarodes straubei straubei Fieber, 1853: Ünal 1999: 247.
Type locality. Turkey, Bursa. Lectotype (MfN), here designated.
Material examined. TURKEY: Brussa [Bursa], 1♂, [June, 1847], (Lectotype) (leg. F. G. Straube); Amasia, 1860 1♂ (leg. Mann) (MfN); Brussa [Bursa], 1♂ (Paralectotype) (leg. Straube) (NHMUK); [Bursa], Gemlik, 1930, 1♀ (leg. Sureya); Asia Minor, 1♂, 1♀; Belgrade forest, 24.7.1918, 1♂, 27.5.1920, 1♀; Uludag (Mt. Olympus), 1700–2000 m, 1♂ (leg. M. Burr); İstanbul, Forest of Belgrad, 7.4.1947, 2♂, 4♀ nymphs (leg. M. Burr); İstanbul, Belgrad forest, 1♂ (leg. N. Biker); Nr. İstanbul, Belgrad ormanı, 100 ft, 12.5.1960, 1♂, 6♀ nymphs (leg. K. M. Guichard & D. H. Harvey) (NHMUK); Bursa, Uludağ, 9.8.1967, 1♂; İzmit, Ballıkayalar Milli Parkı, Demirciler Köyü, 15.6.2004, 1♂, 1♀ (leg. A. Hasbenli); İstanbul, European part, Atatürk Arboretumu, 10.6.2008, 1♂, 1♀ (leg. M. Ünal); Bursa Orhangazi, Üreğil-Mahmudiye, 350 m, 17.6.2010, 1♂ (leg. M. Ünal); Yalova, Sugören, Höyüktepe, 660 m, 3.7.2009, 1♂, 1♀ (leg. A. Erden); Eskişehir, Sündiken Dağı, Türkmen Tepesi, 1500 m, 10.6.2014, 1♂ (leg. M. Ünal, A. G. Bugrov & I. E. Jetybayev) (all in AİBÜEM); Brussa, 1863, 2♀ (leg. Mann) (NMW); Konstantinopoly [İstanbul], 1♀ (det. W. Ramme) (NMW); Türkei, Thrazien, Belgrad ormanı, 25.5.1968, 1♂ (leg. Bauer); Trapezunt [Trabzon], 1♂ (det. Br. v.W.); Türkei, 2♂, 2♀ (det. Fieber as straubei) (Paralectotypes) (NMW); Anatolien, 1♂, 1♀ (leg. Jelski) (ZIN); İstanbul, Yakacık, 9.6.1947, 2♂, 1♀ (det. Karabağ) (AÜZM); BULGARIA: Ropatomo, 3.7.1964, 1♂ (leg. G. Peschev), Ropatomo, 21.6.1963, 1♀ (leg. M. Aranassova) (ZIN).
Distribution. Known from N.W. Turkey, both in European and Asian sides. Bursa, İstanbul, Yalova, İzmit, Eskişehir, Kırklareli provinces. S.E. Bulgaria (Fig. 840).
Remarks. Fieber (1853: 127) described this species after the material from “Türkei (Straube), Cypern (Frydvaldsky. Fieber)”. Brunner (1882: 189) correctly gave the distribution of this species in the Bosphorus and northern part of Asia Minor, without Cyprus. Uvarov (1949: 5) presumed the type locality of this species as N. W. Turkey. The collector of this species, Franz Gustav Straube, was in İstanbul between May 24th and June 21 th, and between July 15th and July 29th 1847; in Bursa (Olimpo mount [Uludağ] at June, 1847 and near Nilüfer river via Gemlik port) between June 22 th and July 14th 1847 (Fernando C. Straube grandson of Straube, pers. comm.). It is clear that the type specimens were collected from İstanbul and Bursa provinces. Ramme (1951: 279) considered the males in the MfN collected by Straube as paratypes, but a lectotype has never been designated till now, Therefore the type serie is still syntypic. All the type specimens preserved in the NMW, MfN and NHMUK were studied and the male collected from Bursa preserved in the MfN is designated as lectotype.
On the other hand, one female collected in 1863 from Cyprus is identified as Paranothrotes sulcatus (I. Bolívar) herein. The previous specimen from Cyprus in Brunner (1882) is possibly P. sulcatus.
It seems that a series of specimens of several taxa with “Amasia” label in some collections were probably mislabelled. These taxa are Paranocarodes straubei, P. fieberi in the MfN, Nocaracris burri, N. furvus in the NMW. They are not found in Amasya Province of Turkey, but all are found in western Turkey. The only male of P. straubei from Trabzon, also far from the distributional area, has the same problem in the NMW.
Demirsoy (1973) recorded this species from Akşehir which should be confirmed. It may be P. anatoliensis anamas ssp. nov. or P. brevipes Ramme rather than the other species.
Jabbari et al. (2015: 37) surprisingly recorded this species from Khorasan, E. Iran and which very probably belongs to another species, should be confirmed.
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 95-98, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4206.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/208260