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Montana tianshanica Uvarov 1933

Description

Montana tianshanica (Uvarov, 1933) — Fig. 7 I.

Locality: China, Xinjiang, Tian chi (Tien chi (Himmelssee) in Tian shan near Bofda Feng (mountain) (N 43°54', E 88°07'), 2000 m a.s.l., 30.vii.2009, leg. K.- G. Heller (5 males). According to the locality name in the description of the species and the comments and map in Sjöstedt & Hummel (1933), our specimens were collected at or very close to the type locality.

The calling song of M. tianshanica differs from that of all other Montana species. It consists of relatively short, polysyllabic (ca. 3–9 macrosyllables) echemes (syllable repetition rate ca. 25 Hz) separated from each other by intervals of about the same duration (Fig. 7 I). Regularly some echemes contain microsyllables at the beginning and only few macrosyllables.

Notes

Published as part of Ivković, Slobodan, Iorgu, Ștefan, Horvat, Laslo, Chobanov, Dragan, Korsunovskaya, Olga & Heller, Klaus-Gerhard, 2017, New data on the bush-cricket Montana medvedevi (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae), critically endangered in Europe (EU 28), and a comparison of its song with all known song patterns within the genus, pp. 527-542 in Zootaxa 4263 (3) on page 539, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4263.3.5, http://zenodo.org/record/573657

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Event date
2009-07-30
Family
Tettigoniidae
Genus
Montana
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Orthoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Uvarov
Species
tianshanica
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Verbatim event date
2009-07-30
Taxonomic concept label
Montana tianshanica Uvarov, 1933 sec. Ivković, Iorgu, Horvat, Chobanov, Korsunovskaya & Heller, 2017

References

  • Sjostedt, Y. & Hummel, D. (1933) Schwedisch-chinesische wissenschaftliche Expedition nach den nordwestlichen Provinzen Chinas. Insekten. Einleitung. Arkiv for Zoologi, 25 (A), 1 - 34.