Orchamus raulinii ( Lucas, 1854 )

Ünal, Mustafa, 2016, Pamphagidae (Orthoptera: Acridoidea) from the Palaearctic Region: taxonomy, classification, keys to genera and a review of the tribe Nocarodeini I. Bolívar, Zootaxa 4206 (1), pp. 1-223 : 70-72

Orchamus raulinii ( Lucas, 1854)

( Figs. 310–311 )

Material examined. GREECE: Kreta, Sitia , 2– 16.5.1942, 1♂ (Neotype?) (leg. Wettstein) ; West Kreta, Halbrinakrotiri , Kl. Ajo Trias, 28.2.1925, 1♀ (leg. A. Schulz) ; West Kreta, Halbrin-akrotiri , Kl. Ajo Trias, 28.2.1925, 1♂ (leg. A. Schulz) (det. as Orchamus brevicornis n.sp.); Ost-Kreta , 5.5.1942, 1♀ (leg. Zimmermann) (det. as Orchamus brevicornis n.sp.) (MfN); Hellas, Creta, 3♀ (leg. Paganetti) ( NMW).

Remarks. This species is smaller than O. yersini . Inner surface of hind tibia bulish. One male and one female in the MfN were identified and labelled as Orchamus brevicornis n.sp., which is a manuscript name. Descamps & Donskoff (1965: 499) recorded one female from Syria. Later Descamps & Mounassif (1972: 252) corrected this record as O. yersini .

One female collected from “Kl. Ajo Trias” has also a neotype label, but neotype must be a single specimen. The male collected from Sitia is the neotype which is also in Harz (1975: 109) and Massa (2009: 93). Descamps & Mounassif (1972: 254) mentioned the neotype for the first time, after a communication with Harz, who (1975: 109) designated the neotype. He showed the locality and the sex of the neotype in the figure captions on pages 80, 88, 110 and 114 as the male from Sitia , Crete . But he reported the type locality as Candia ( Harz 1975: 109). If it is a valid neotype designation the type locality of this species must be Sitia , Crete. But it seems that it is not a valid designation according to the ICZN (Article 75.3).

Figures

FIGURES 296 – 311. Habitus and body parts. 296 – 297 Orchamus yersini yersini, 296 male lectotype; 297 female paralectotype. 298 – 299 Orchamus yersini davisi, 298 male paratype; 299 female holotype. 300 – 305 Orchamus massai, 300 male holotype, habitus; 301 ditto head, pronotum and tegmina dorsal; 302 ditto lateral; 303 female paratype, habitus; 304 ditto head, pronotum and tegmina dorsal; 305 ditto lateral. 306 Orchamus kaltenbachi, head, pronotum and tegmina in male holotype. 307 Orchamus hebraeus, head, pronotum and tegmina in male. 308 – 309 Orchamus gracilis, habitus, 308 male; 309 female lectotype. 310 – 311 Orchamus raulinii, habitus, 310 male; 311 female.