Nocaracris rubripes Motschulsky 1846
Creators: name: Ünal, Mustafa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Pamphagidae
Nocaracris
Nocaracris rubripes

description: Nocaracris rubripes (Motschulsky, 1846) comb. rev.
(Figs. 357, 390, 663–664, 844)
Eremoxenus rubripes, de Motschulsky in lit.: sensu Fischer von Waldheim 1846: 270.
Nocarodes rubripes Motschulsky: in Fischer von Waldheim 1846: 270.
Nocarodes rufipes: Fischer von Waldheim 1846: 406, pl. 31, Fig. 3, misspelling of rubripes.
Nocarodes rubripes Motsch.: Fieber 1853: 127.
Nocarodes rufipes: Fieber 1853: 127, as syn. of rubripes.
Nocarodes cyanipes Fischer de Waldheim, 1846: Kirby 1910: 355, partim; I. Bolívar 1916: 25, partim.
Pamphagus (Nocarodes)cyanipes Fisch. W.: Stål 1876: 28, partim.
Pamphagus (Nocarodes) rubripes Fisch. W.: Stål 1876: 28, as syn. of cyanipes.
Nocarodes rubripes Fischer de Waldheim, 1846: Jacobson 1905: 200, 298, sensu Bey-Bienko & Mistshenko 1951; I. Bolívar 1916: 25, as syn. of cyanipes.
Nocarodes rufipes Fischer de Waldheim, 1846: I. Bolívar 1916: 25, as syn. of cyanipes.
Nocaracris rubripes (F.-W.): Uvarov 1928: 150; Miram 1938: 52; Tarbinsky 1940: 34, 214, 215; Ramme 1951: 411, 427.
Nocaracris (Paranocaracris) rubripes F.-W.: Bey-Bienko 1964: 251.
Nocaracris tibialis Ramme 1951: 279, 298, 427; Avakyan 1968: 100, as syn. of P. rubripes; Presa & Garcia 1983: 17; Otte 1994: 173. confirmed syn.
Paranocaracris rubripes (Fischer de Waldhein, 1846): Bey-Bienko & Mistshenko 1951: 351; Karabağ 1958: 122; Mirzayans 1959: 16; Shumakov 1963: 57; Avakyan 1968: 100; Weidner 1969: 160; Mistshenko 1972: 52; Stolyarov 1974: 481; Presa & Garcia 1983: 23; Heller et al. 1998: 61.
Paranocaracris rubipes (Fischer von Waldheim, 1846): Hodjat 2012: 267; Sevgili et al. 2012: 325.
Paranocaracris rubripes rubripes (Fischer de Waldheim, 1846): Demirsoy 1973: 424, 425, partim; Demirsoy 1977: 81, 82, partim; Salman 1978: 70; Erman & Salman 1990: 112; Otte 1994: 183; Stolyarov 1997: 69; Mol et al. 2014: 137.
Type locality. Armenia (Fischer von Waldheim 1846: 270). Holotype: male (NMW).
Material examined. ARMENIA: Caucasus, 1♂ (Holotype) (det. Fieber as Nocarodes rubripes) (det. Br. v.W. as Nocarodes cyanipes) (det. Ramme and Cejchan as Nocaracris cyanipes) (NMW); Eriwan, Krasikoparan, 1♀ (leg. Christoph) (det. Br. v.W. as Nocarodes spec.) (NMW); Diližan, 4.7.1926, 1♀ (Holotype of Nocaracris tibialis) (leg. Ižmailov) (MfN); circ. lac. Gokča, prope Čubuchlu, 12.7.1927, 2♂, 4♀; Gokča, pr. Šordja, 20.7.1927, 1♂; Šordja, 20.6.1928, 1♂, 4♀; Šordja, 26.6.1928, 3♂; Šordja, 13.5.1930, 6♀; Šordja, 14.5.1930, 3♂, 5♀; Šordja, 20.5.1930, 1♂, 2♀; Gokča, pr. Elenovka, 21.8.1926, 1♂; Elenovka, 5.6.1927, 3♀; Elenovka, 14.6.1927, 6♂, 12♀, Elenovka, 9 – 10.5.1930, 8♂, 7♀; Elenovka, 3.7.1930, 12♂, 14♀; Gokča, pr. Täk-Agač, 16.7.1927, 13♂, 12♀, 1♀ nymph; Alagöz, 10000 ft, 5.8.1930, 8♀; Gokča, pr. Babadjan-dara, 15.5.1930, 1♂, 1♀; Abazan, pr. Jmerlu, 10.8.1930, 1♂ (all leg. A. Schelkovnikov); Elenovka, 5.6.1929, 9♂ (leg. Bockarev) (all in NHMUK); Aragats Mt., 12.6.2013, 1♀ (leg. A. G. Bugrov & I. E. Jetybayev) (AİBÜEM); TURKEY: [Kars], Sarakancyš [Sarıkamış], 1.5.1919, 2♂, 1♂ nymph, 2♀ nymphs (leg. A. Schelkovnikov) (NHMUK); Ardahan, 7.5.1974, 5♂; Erzurum, Şenkaya, Turnalı, 25.6.1991, 1♀ (leg. E. Yıldırım) (EMET); Kars, Selim, Zellice Köyü, 4.6.1980, 4♂, 2♀, 1♀ nymph (AİBÜEM); Erzurum, Horasan, Hızırilyas Köyü, 1742 m, 19.7.2011, 1♀ (leg. A. Hasbenli) (MAZM).
Distribution. Transcaucasia, Caucasia, Armenia, Nakhichevan, Azerbaijan, N. Iran and E. Turkey: Ardahan, Kars, Erzurum provinces (Fig. 844).
Remarks. The author of this species must be Motschultsky as is the case the other species described by Motschultsky in Fischer von Waldheim, 1846 such as Nocaracris cyanipes, Pholidoptera pustulipes, Barbitistes foliicauda (see Fischer von Waldheim 1846: 269, 270, 359, 360). Fischer von Waldheim gave his new species as in following format “ Nocarodes serricollis Fischer. ” in the same paper (Fischer von Waldheim 1846: 268). Subsequent researchers gave the author of P. rubripes as Fischer von Waldheim except Fieber (1853: 127).
One male from Caucasus in the NMW was identified by Fieber as rubripes, but the other researchers Brunner, Ramme and Cejchan identified it as cyanipes. Here it is confirmed that it is N. rubripes and probably it is the only type of this species.
Motschultsky (in Fischer von Waldheim 1846: 270) in describing this species after the male gave the colors of hind tibia and tarsus as red. According to Uvarov (1928: 150) the inner side of hind tibia is red in male, blue-black with orange spine in female. Bey-Bienko & Mistshenko (1951: 351) stated that the hind tibia of this species is blueblack, black, sometimes red in male. According to Demirsoy (1973: 424; 1977: 81) hind tibia in both sexes is black, bluish. In fact it is quite variable, but the typical forms have red hind tibia in male and blue-black with reddish spines in the typical forms of female, as it is correctly stated by Uvarov (1928) (see the key above).
Avakyan (1968: 100) synonymized Nocaracris tibialis Ramme with N. rubripes for the first time, but it was overlooked by subsequent authors. The synonymy is here confirmed. The coloration of the hind legs of N. tibialis is undoubtedly within the variation of this species.
Erman & Salman’s (1990: 112) record from Elazığ probably belongs to another species of Nocaracris which 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 158-159, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4206.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/208260