Nocaracris furvus subsp. kazdagi Unal, ssp. nov.
Creators: name: Ünal, Mustafa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Pamphagidae
Nocaracris
Nocaracris furvus
Nocaracris furvus kazdagi ünal

description: Nocaracris furvus kazdagi Ünal, ssp. nov.
(Figs. 65, 542, 551–552, 621–624, 843)
Paranocaracris rubripes burri Uvarov, 1949: Sevgili et al. 2011: 644.
Type locality. Turkey: Balıkesir, Kaz Dağları. Holotype: male (AİBÜEM).
Material examined. TURKEY: Balıkesir, Edremit, Kaz Dağları, Sarıkız Tepesi, 1650 m, 25.6.2002, 6♂ (including Holotype), 6♀ (leg. M. Ünal); Çanakkale, Ayvacık, Kavak Dağı, 2.4.1999, 5♂, 1♂ nymph, 2♀ nymphs; 9.4.1999, 3♂, 3♀ nymphs; Kavak Dağı, 500 m, 21.3.1999, 1♂ (all leg. M. Ünal) (AİBÜEM).
Description. Male (Holotype): Body (Figs. 621, 622) slightly compressed laterally. Fastigium of vertex (Figs. 621, 622) sloping, slightly depressed. Vertex narrow, 1.4 times narrower than vertical diameter, 1.1 times narrower than transversal diameter of eye; convex in lateral view. Supraocular foveola distinct, open type. Frontal ridge very slightly narrowed and indistinctly incised just below the median ocellus. Antennae with 12 segments. Pronotum (Figs. 621, 622) slightly compressed laterally, with distinct lateral carinae; median carina very slightly raised, almost straight in lateral view, longitudinal sulcus wide only at anterior end, remaining posterior part very thin, hardly visible; anterior margin roundly protruded, posterior margin straight in dorsal view. Anterior margin of prosternum (Fig. 551) raised, pointed with a narrow tongue-shaped median projection. Mesosternal interspace 2 times wider than its length, slightly narrower than mesosternal lobes. Hind femur (Fig. 621) 2.5 times longer than its width, dorsal margin convex, almost smooth, its denticles indistinct. Hind tibia with 9 inner, 10 outer short spines, but because of its short length, spines are seen denser. Abdominal tergites (Figs. 621, 622) simple, not raised, without posterior projection, with distinct median carina. Tympanum very distinct, as large as the neighbour stigmal area. Phallus (Figs. 65 a, b) slender; arch of zygoma wide; posterior lobes of zygoma short and wide; apical valves of penis slender, basal valves of penis narrow; apodemes narrow with weak apical notch; pseudolophi (Fig. 65 c) close, with 11–14 spines.
Female: Body (Figs. 623, 624) slightly compressed laterally. Fastigium of vertex as in male, but less sloping. Vertex slightly wider than that of male, as wide as vertical diameter and 1.2 times wider than transversal diameter of eye. Antennae with 12–13 segments. Pronotum (Figs. 623, 624) compressed, with distinct lateral carinae; median carina not raised with a longitudinal sulcus wider in anterior part; almost straight in lateral view, its middle part very slightly concave, or very slightly convex along its length in some females. Prosternum (Fig. 552) as in male, slightly more raised. Mesosternal interspace 2.5 times wider than its length. Hind femur (Fig. 623) 2.7 times longer than its height, dorsal margin straighter than that of male. Hind tibia with 7–9 inner, 9–10 outer spines. Abdominal tergites (Fig. 623) as in male. Tympanum (Fig. 542) slightly smaller or as large as the neighbour stigmal area.
Coloration. Male brown with creamish and black spots and stains. Female greyish-brown. Ventral half of head creamish-brown; behind the eyes, below of lateral carinae of pronotum and lateral sides of abdomen blackened. Typical light bands on paranota distinct, connecting to ventral margin and reaching to lateral carinae. Typical light band on abdomen creamish-brown in male, greyish in female. Anterior margins of abdominal sternites with large black spots laterally. Inner and ventral surfaces of hind femur black; inner surface of hind tibia and inner ventral genicular lobe of hind femur bright light red, dorsal surface of hind tibia yellow in proximal part turning to red in distal part. Tarsus bright light red.
Diagnosis. This new subspecies is similar to the nominotypical subspecies, N. furvus furvus (Mistshenko, 1951) by the presence of a distinct tympanum, the general body shape and the coloration except the hind legs. It is different by the more sloping fastigium, the narrower vertex (between the eyes, it is as wide as vertical diameter of eye in the type of N. furvus furvus), the pointed and less raised prosternum (much more raised and broadly rounded at apex in N. furvus furvus); the straight and not raised median carina of pronotum (distinctly convex in lateral view and more raised in N. furvus furvus), the less distinct lateral carinae of pronotum (much more distinct in N. furvus furvus), the shorter tibial spines, wider arch of zygoma, shorter and wider posterior lobes of zygoma, more slender apical valves and narrower basal valves of penis, narrower apodems with weak apical notch (wider and more distinct apical notch in N. furvus furvus), the hind tibia with bright light red (black, dark reddish black in N. furvus furvus) and the slender and smaller body. It is different from N. burri (Uvarov, 1949) by the more compressed, smaller and slender body (distinctly depressed dorso-ventrally, stout and large in N. burri), the presence of a large tympanum as large as the neighbour stigmal area (without or with a very reduced tympanum in some specimens of N. burri always much smaller than the neighbour stigmal area), more slender legs and the shape of male phallus (male phallus of N. burri more similar to N. furvus furvus).
Measurements (mm). Holotype (male): body length 23.2; pronotum length 4.3; pronotum height 4.7; pronotum width anterior 4.5; pronotum width posterior 6; hind femur length 8.6; hind femur height 3.4. Paratypes: body length: male 19.6–29.9, female 32.7–36.9; pronotum length: male 4.2–4.8, female 6.5–7.9; pronotum height: male 4.6–5.2, female 6.7–8.7; pronotum width anterior: male 4.2–4.8, female 6.3–7; pronotum width posterior: male 5.8–6.3, female 8.8–10.2; hind femur length: male 8.4–9, female 11.7–13.2; hind femur height: male 3.2–3.6, female 4.1–4.6.
Etymology. “Kaz Dağı” (Kaz Mountain) is the type locality of this new subspecies.
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 140-141, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4206.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/208260