Bufonocarodes intricatus Mistshenko 1951
Creators: name: Ünal, Mustafa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Pamphagidae
Bufonocarodes
Bufonocarodes intricatus

description: Bufonocarodes intricatus Mistshenko, 1951
(Figs. 826–827, 834)
Bufonocarodes intricatus Mistshenko sp. n.: Bey-Bienko & Mistshenko 1951: 364.
Bufonocarodes intricatus Mistshenko, 1951: Mirzayans 1959: 17; Shumakov 1963: 60; Presa & Garcia 1983: 8; Otte 1994: 168; Mirzayans 1998: 24; Hodjat 2012: 266.
Type locality. Iran: N. Kharadzi. Holotype: female (ZIN).
Material examined. IRAN: N. Kharadzi, Arabistan, 13.4.1904, 1♀ (Holotype) (leg. Zarudny); W. Iran, Abedak, 12.5.1962, 1♂, 1♀ (leg. et det. Shumakov) (ZIN); Nr. Kerman, 5.1951, 1♀; Persia, between Hamadan and Quazvin, 1♂, 1♀ (leg. R. C. Rainey & E. H. Shumakov) (NHMUK); Persien, 1♀ (leg. Heller) (det. Br. v.W. as Nocarodes serricollis) (NMW); N. Persien, 1♀ (leg. Dr. Poleak) (det. Br. v.W. as Nocarodes serricollis) (NMW).
Description of male: Body (Fig. 826) stout, depressed dorso-ventrally. Fastigium of vertex broad, depressed and sloping. Vertex broad; median carina long and grooved; supraocular foveola closed type. Antennae with 12 segments. Pronotum (Fig. 826) very broad, strongly depressed between median and lateral carinae; the swelling of lateral carinae distinct in metazona, this swelling lying down diagonally towards anterior margin of pronotum, in prozona lateral carinae indistinct; median carina distinctly raised without longitudinal sulcus; clearly convex in lateral view. Hind femur (Fig. 826) 2.6 times longer than its height, dorsal margin almost straight in proximal part, with a deep and wide preapical notch, ventral margin convex and smooth in proximal part, undulate distally; dorsal surface of genicular lobes with a low carina with blunt denticles. Abdominal tergites (Fig. 826) simple, with slightly raised median carina, not protruded backwards. Arolium very narrow and small. Tympanum absent. Arch of zygoma narrow, triangular, slightly raised apically; posterior lobes of zygoma short and wide; apical valves of penis as in the genus, stout, S-shaped and with an apical notch; tumida of zygoma narrow and elongated; apodemes narrow, without apical notch; basal valves of penis narrow, as long as apodemes; pseudolophi separated, rounded, with 13–15 spines.
Coloration. Body unicolor greyish milky brown. Ventral half of head, between median and lateral carinae of pronotum in metazona, fore and mid legs lighter. Antennae greyish. Typical light bands on paranota absent. Typical light band on abdomen weak. Inner surface of hind femur black, dorsal margin body color with red tinge. Inner surface of hind tibia black.
Distribution. W. Iran: Kharadzi, Hamadan, Qazvin, Kerman, Abedak.
Remarks. The male was unknown. I have no specimens before me, but its description has been made from the photographs of the male from Abedak taken by me.
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 206-207, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4206.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/208260