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Parnassiana parnassica (Ramme, 1926)

Parnassos Greek Bush-cricket
CollectionObject 1502693; e8d990a0-707f-4ee1-8659-00b8e7f400b1: male, lateral view (paratype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1502693; e8d990a0-707f-4ee1-8659-00b8e7f400b1: male, lateral view (paratype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1502693; e8d990a0-707f-4ee1-8659-00b8e7f400b1: male, dorsal view (paratype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1502693; e8d990a0-707f-4ee1-8659-00b8e7f400b1: male cerci (paratype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1502693; e8d990a0-707f-4ee1-8659-00b8e7f400b1: label (paratype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1502694; ee0ec4e4-0b5b-49b9-aa4a-e348d93cfa85: female, lateral view (paratype). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (13)

  • Metrioptera parnassica Ramme, 1926: 284.

    Holotype; male; b2311630-a65b-4a53-9aa3-ccc054682b9f; deposited at: Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien (NMW); Greece: Thessaly and Central Greece: Mount Parnassus

  • Parnassiana parnassica (Ramme, 1926) in Zeuner, 1941: 20.
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  • Parnassiana parnassica (Ramme, 1926) in Willemse, Kleukers & Odé, 2018: 235.
  • Parnassiana parnassica (Ramme, 1926) in Stefanidis, Kougioumoutzis, Zografou, Fotiadis, Tzortzakaki, Willemse & Kati, 2024

Nomenclature references (13)

  • Grzywacz, B., Heller, K.-G., Chobanov, D.P. & Warchalowska-Sliwa, E. (2017) Conventional and molecular chromosome study in the European genus Parnassiana Zeuner, 1941 (Orthoptera, Tettigoniinae, Platycleidini). Folia Biologica (Kraków), 65(1), 1–8.
  • Harz, K. (1969) Die Orthopteren Europas I. Series Entomologica, 5, 1–749.
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  • Heller, K.-G. (1988) Bioakustik der europäischen Laubheuschrecken. In Ökologie in Forschung und Anwendung. J. Margraf, Weikersheim. Vol. 1, 1–358 pp.
  • Massa, B. & Fontana, P. (2011) Supraspecific taxonomy of Palaearctic Platycleidini with unarmed prosternum: a morphological approach (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae, Tettigoniinae). Zootaxa, 2837, 1–47. Available at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2011/f/zt02837p047.pdf
  • Ragge, D.R. (1990) The songs of the western European bush-crickets of the genus Platycleis in relation to their taxonomy (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology, 59(1), 1–35. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41055755#page/3/mode/1up
  • Ramme, W. (1926) Neue und wenig bekannte europäische und asiatische Orthopteren (Acrid., Tettigon.). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, 1926, 273–289.
  • Stefanidis, A., Kougioumoutzis, K., Zografou, K., Fotiadis, G., Tzortzakaki, O., Willemse, L. & Kati, V. (2024) Mitigating the extinction risk of globally threatened and endemic mountainous Orthoptera species: Parnassiana parnassica and Oropodisma parnassica. Insect Conservation and Diversity, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1111/icad.12784
  • Willemse, F.M.H. & Willemse, L. (2008) An annotated checklist of the Orthoptera-Saltatoria from Greece including an updated bibliography. Articulata Beiheft, 13.
  • Willemse, F.M.H. (1973) Records of Parnassiana Zeuner, 1941 from Greece (Orthoptera, Ensifera, Decticinae). Biologia Gallo-Hellenica, 5, 43–55.
  • Willemse, F.M.H. (1980) Three new species and some additional notes on Parnassiana Zeuner from Greece (Orthoptera, Ensifera). Entomologische Berichten, 40(7), 103–112. Available at http://natuurtijdschriften.nl/pub/1013052
  • Willemse, F.M.H. (1984) Catalogue of the Orthoptera of Greece. Fauna Graeciae I., 1–275.
  • Willemse, L., Kleukers, R.M.J.C. & Odé, B. (2018) The Grasshoppers of Greece. Naturalis Biodiversity Center, 440 pp.
  • Zeuner, F.E. (1941) The classification of the Decticinae hitherto included in Platycleis Fieb. or Metrioptera Wesm. (Orthoptera, Saltatoria). Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 91, 1–50, figs. 1–45.

Descendants and synonyms

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Etymology:

After type locality on Mount Parnassus.

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