Poecilimon luschani, RAMME, 1933

Boztepe, Zehra, Kaya, Sarp & Çiplak, Battal, 2013, Integrated systematics of the Poecilimon luschani species group (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae): radiation as a chain of populations in a small heterogeneous area, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 169 (1), pp. 43-69 : 63

POECILIMON LUSCHANI RAMME, 1933

Poecilimon luschani Ramme, 1933: 539–540 .

All populations in the southern part of the group’s range constitute a single species with three different morphological units. Each of these units is considered as a subspecies. Of these morphounits, two correspond to the existing species P. luschani and P. birandi . Based on priority, P. luschani is retained as the species name and P. birandi is treated as a subspecies of P. luschani . The third morphounit is named as a new subspecies ( Figs 1 , 86 ). In two recent studies the entire Antalya + Mug˘la range was considered as a single species under the name of P. birandi ( Çıplak et al., 2008; Kaya et al., 2012b). These records correspond to three subspecies of P. luschani .

Figures

Figure 1. Distribution of the Poecilimon luschani species group (filled circles indicate the specimens used for morphology, song, and DNA studies, see Table 1; open circles indicate the material in the collection of K.G. Heller; taxa names are according to the results of this study).

Figure 86. Evolution of the male cerci and subgenital plate in the light of molecular phylogeny and the background for taxonomic decisions for Poecilimon luschani species group. MU, morphological unit.