Paranothrotes opacus subsp. rectus Mistshenko 1951
Creators: name: Ünal, Mustafa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Pamphagidae
Paranothrotes
Paranothrotes opacus
Paranothrotes opacus rectus mistshenko, 1951

description: Paranothrotes opacus rectus Mistshenko, 1951
(Figs. 446, 483–484, 841)
Nocarodes sp.: Uvarov 1938: 450.
Paranothrotes gotvendicus rectus subsp. nov.: Mistshenko, 1951: 519.
Paranothrotes gotvendicus rectus Mistshenko, 1951: Bey-Bienko & Mistshenko 1951: 344; Mirzayans 1959: 16; Shumakov 1963: 54; Presa & Garcia 1983: 25; Ihsan & Donskoff 1988: 15, 21; Hodjat 2012: 267.
Nocaropsis gotvendicus rectus Mistshenko, 1951: Otte 1994: 175.
Paranothrotes gotvendicus gotvendicus (I. Bolívar, 1912): Bey-Bienko & Mistshenko 1951: 345; Shumakov 1963: 54; Presa & Garcia 1983: 25, partim; Ihsan & Donskoff 1988: 15, 21, 30; Mirzayans 1998: 18, partim.
Paranothrotes gotvendicus gotvendicus (I. Bolívar, 1912): Demirsoy 1973: 415, 419; Demirsoy 1977: 68, 72, 73.
Paranothrotes gotvendicus gotvendicus f. campestris f. n.: Demirsoy 1973: 419; Demirsoy 1977: 73.
Paranothrotes gotvendicus forma campestris Demirsoy, 1973: Presa & Garcia 1983: 25.
Paranocarodes opacus (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1882): Weidner 1962: 87.
Nocaracris cyanipes (Fischer de Waldheim, 1846): Weidner 1962: 88, under Paranothrotes opacus.
Type locality: Iran: Lorestan, Abbas Khan. Holotype: male (ZIN).
Material examined. IRAN: Persia, Luristan, Abbasan [Abbas Khan], 14.5.1914, 1♂ (Holotype of Paranothrotes gotvendicus rectus), 1♀ (Paratype); Sirv-gora, Shah Kerem, Kurdistan, 17.5.1914, 1♀ (Allotype of Paranothrotes gotvendicus rectus) (ZIN); Luristan, Sheikh Nazvadin, 13– 16.5.1914, 2♀ (Paratytpes of Paranothrotes gotvendicus rectus); IRAN: Persia, Kermanshah, Kasr-i Sherifi, 1928, 2♀ (NHMUK); IRAQ: Tavile, Alepche [Halapja], 20– 22.5.1914, 1♂, 3♀ (Paratypes of Paranothrotes gotvendicus rectus) (leg. Nesterov) (ZIN); Iraq, Between Kirkuk and Sulaymaniah, 28.5.1932, 6♂, 3♀ (leg. B. P. Uvarov); Between Sulaymaniah and Penjwin, 1500–3000 ft, 28.5.1932, 8♂, 20♀ (leg. B. P. Uvarov); Iraq, Jezireh, W. of Mosul, 3.6.1932, 1♂ (leg. B. P. Uvarov); Nr. Dohuk, N. of Mosul, ca. 3000 ft, 4.6.1932, 16♀; Barima, N. of Mosul, 1.6.1932, 1♀ (leg. B. P. Uvarov); Penjwin, 1948, 2♂ (leg. F. Bodenheimer); Iraq, Penjwin, 4500 ft, 25.6.1928, 1♂, 2♀ (N. Scott); Sulaymania, 2800 ft, 24.6.1928, 1♀ (N. Scott) (all in NHMUK); Iraq, Biare, Mosulsk., vil. Mesopot., 6.6.1914, 1♀ (leg. Nesterov) (det. Mistshenko as Paranothrotes gotvendicus gotvendicus) (NHMUK): Iraq, Biare, Mosulsk., vil. Mesopotamia, 4– 6.6.1914, 1♂, 1♀ (leg. Nesterov) (det. Mistshenko as Paranothrotes gotvendicus gotvendicus) (ZIN); TURKEY: Mardin ovası, 13.6.1953, 1♀ (leg. S. Erkılıç) (AİBÜEM); Urfa, Suwersâk [Siverek], May 1914, 3 ♀ (leg. Pietschmann) (NMW); [Elazığ], Palu, July 1914, 1 ♀ (leg. Pietschmann) (NMW).
Distribution. N.W. Iran: Lorestan, Kermanshah, Kordestan, N.E. Iraq: Mosul, Suleymaniah, Dohuk, Penjwin, S.E. Turkey: Urfa, Mardin provinces (Fig. 841).
Remarks. Mistshenko (1951a: 519) described P. gotvendicus rectus (given here as P. opacus rectus) and distinguished it from his P. gotvendicus gotvendicus (given here as P. opacus rectus) by the pointed fastigium and flat vertex, but these characters are present only in the holotype of P. rectus, are variable in the paratypes. Actually there is no difference between the paratypes of “ P. gotvendicus rectus ” and Mistshenko’s “ P. gotvendicus gotvendicus ” (P. opacus rectus).
This subspecies has strongly variable convexities of pronotum and abdominal tergites even in the same locality such as the populations of Kirkuk and Sulaymaniah, and Sulaymaniah and Penjwin. The hind tibia of this subspecies is mainly black, but it is possible to see blackish-red tibia or strongly raised pronotum and abdominal tergites or much less convex forms in these populations, but all of them are undoubtedly the same taxon.
All specimens identified as P. gotvendicus gotvendicus by Mistshenko in the ZIN belong to this subspecies. The types of the true P. gotvendicus have been studied and it is a very different species. Moreover P. gotvendicus and P. opacus are given in different species groups herein (see also P. opacus opacus above).
Ihsan & Donskoff (1988) probably erroneously wrote this subspecies on the pages 15 and 21. They besides reported Paranothrotes ornatus in another part of the paper (on the pages 22, 24, 29 and 30- Figures and key).
It is new for Turkey.
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 116-118, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4206.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/208260