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Poecilimon veluchianus veluchianus Ramme, 1933

Veluchi Bright Bush-cricket
Poecilimon veluchianus veluchianus Ramme, 1933: male, lateral view (paratype). (Otu).
Poecilimon veluchianus veluchianus Ramme, 1933: male, lateral view (paratype). (Otu).
Poecilimon veluchianus veluchianus Ramme, 1933: male head and pronotum, dorsal view (paratype). (Otu).
Poecilimon veluchianus veluchianus Ramme, 1933: male cerci (paratype). (Otu).
CollectionObject 1500673; f8482a7e-3c63-4526-b477-4f35620f6968: male, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1500673; f8482a7e-3c63-4526-b477-4f35620f6968: male pronotum, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1500673; f8482a7e-3c63-4526-b477-4f35620f6968: male head and pronotum, dorsal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1500673; f8482a7e-3c63-4526-b477-4f35620f6968: cerci (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1500673; f8482a7e-3c63-4526-b477-4f35620f6968: label (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1501855; ec085115-3a24-4d2c-9cf6-8d4d8bb7d635: female, lateral view (allotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1501855; ec085115-3a24-4d2c-9cf6-8d4d8bb7d635: ovipositor (allotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1536629; 60627a9b-f93b-45a1-919c-268875dc7da1, CH1722: male. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1536630; 2367a843-d026-4504-a0f0-73dc5eb0d797, CH1725: female. (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (28)

  • Poecilimon veluchianus Ramme, 1933: 549. (valid)

    Holotype; male; f8482a7e-3c63-4526-b477-4f35620f6968; deposited at: Museum für Naturkunde (MfN); Greece: Thessaly and Central Greece: Velouchi Mountains

  • Poecilimon veluchiensis [sic] Ramme, 1933 in Werner, 1933: 190.
  • Poecilimon veluchianus Ramme, 1933 in Heller, 2020
  • Poecilimon veluchiensis [sic] Ramme, 1933 (misspelling of Poecilimon veluchianus Ramme, 1933)

References (27)

  • Ramme, W. (1933) Revision der Phaneropterinen-Gattung Poecilimon Fisch. (Orth. Tettigon.). Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin, 19, 497–575.
  • Werner, F. (1933) Ergebnisse einer zoologischen Studien-und Sammelreise nach den Inseln des Agäischen Meeres II. Orthopteren. Sitzungsberichte der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse (Abt. 1), 142, 185–204. Available at http://www.landesmuseum.at/pdf_frei_remote/SBAWW_142_0185-0204.pdf
  • Harz, K. (1969) Die Orthopteren Europas I. Series Entomologica, 5, 1–749.
  • Willemse, F.M.H. (1982) A survey of the Greek species of Poecilimon Fischer (Orthoptera, Ensifera, Phaneropterinae). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, 125(6), 155–203. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/89572#page/189/mode/1up
  • Heller, K.-G. (1984) Zur Bioakustik und Phylogenie der Gattung Poecilimon (Orthoptera, Tettigonnidae, Phaneropterinae). Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere, 111(1), 69–117.
  • Willemse, F.M.H. (1984) Catalogue of the Orthoptera of Greece. Fauna Graeciae I., 1–275.
  • Willemse, F.M.H. (1985) Supplementary notes on the Orthoptera of Greece. Fauna Graeciae I., 1a, 1–47.
  • Heller, K.-G. & von Helversen, O. (1990) Survival of a phaneropterid bush-cricket studied by a new marking technique. Entomologia Generalis, 15, 203–208.
  • Achmann, R., Heller, K.-G. & Epplen, J.T. (1992) Last-male sperm precedence in the bushcricket Peocilimon veluchianus (Orthoptera, Tettigonioidea) demonstrated by DNA fingerprinting. Molecular Ecology, 1, 47–54.
  • Heller, K.-G. (1992) Risk shift between males and females in the pair-forming behavior of bushcrickets. Die Naturwissenschaften, 79, 89–91.
  • Willemse, F.M.H. & Heller, K.-G. (1992) Notes on systematics of Greek species of Poecilimon Fischer, 1853 (Orthoptera: Phaneropterinae). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, 135(2), 299–315. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/89700#page/313/mode/1up
  • Reinhold, K. & Heller, K.-G. (1993) The ultimate function of nuptial feeding in the bushcricket Poecilimon veluchianus (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Phaneropterinae). Behav. Ecology & Sociobiology, 32, 55–60.
  • Heller, K.-G. & Reinhold, K. (1994) Mating effort function of the spermatophore in the bushcricket Poecilimon veluchianus (Orthoptera, Phaneropteridae): Support from a comparison of the mating behaviour of two subspecies. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 53, 153–163.
  • Reinhold, K. (1994) Inheritance of body and testis size in the bushcricket Poecilimon veluchianus Ramme (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) examined by means of subspecies hybrids. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 52, 305–316.
  • Reinhold, K. (1996) Biased primary sex ratio in the bushcricket Poecilimon veluchianus, an insect with sex chromosomes. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 39(3), 189–194.
  • Reinhold, K. & von Helversen, D. (1997) Sperm number, spermatophore weight and remating in the bush-cricket Poecilimon veluchianus. Ethology, 103, 12–18.
  • Reinhold, K. (1998) Light effects on larval hatching in the bushcricket species Poecilimon veluchianus (Orthoptera: Phaneropteridae). Entomologia Generalis, 22, 205–209.
  • Warchalowska-Sliwa, E. (1998) Karyotype characteristics of katydid orthopterans (Ensifera, Tettigoniidae), and remarks on their evolution at different taxonomic levels. Folia Biologica (Kraków), 46, 143–176.
  • Reinhold, K. (1999) Paternal investment in Poecilimon veluchianus bushcrickets: Beneficial effects of nuptial feeding on offspring viability. Behav. Ecology & Sociobiology, 45, 293–299.
  • Orci, K.M. & Heller, K.-G. (2004) A description on the song of Isophya modesta modesta (Frivaldszky 1867) with notes on its relationship to I. modesta rossica. Journal of Orthoptera Research, 13(2), 211–219. Available at http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.1665/1082-6467%282004%29013%5B0211%3AADOTSO%5D2.0.CO%3B2
  • Heller, K.-G. (2006) Song evolution and speciation in bushcrickets. In Insect Sounds and Communication. CRC Press. pp. 137–151.
  • Willemse, F.M.H. & Willemse, L. (2008) An annotated checklist of the Orthoptera-Saltatoria from Greece including an updated bibliography. Articulata Beiheft, 13.
  • Vahed, K., Gilbert, J.D.J., Weissman, D.B. & Barrientos-Lozano, L. (2014) Functional equivalence of grasping cerci and nuptial food gifts in promoting ejaculate transfer in katydids. Evolution, 68(7), 2052–2065. Available at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/evo.12421/abstract
  • Eweleit, L., Reinhold, K. & Sauer, J. (2015) Speciation progress: a case study on the bushcricket Poecilimon veluchianus. PLoS One, 10(10), 1–16. Available at http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0139494
  • Willemse, L., Kleukers, R.M.J.C. & Odé, B. (2018) The Grasshoppers of Greece. Naturalis Biodiversity Center, 440 pp.
  • Anichini, M., Rebrina, F., Reinhold, K. & Lehmann, G.U.C. (2019) Adaptive plasticity of bushcricket acoustic signalling in socially heterogeneous choruses. Animal Behaviour, 158, 139–148.
  • Heller, K.-G. (2020) Diel movement pattern and microhabitat choice in males and females of a flightless phytophagous bush-cricket (Orthoptera: Tettigonioidea: Poecilimon veluchianus). Articulata, 35, 37–46.

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