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Poecilimon antalyaensis subsp. anemurium Kaya & Chobanov & Heller & Yahyaoğlu & Uluar & Çiplak 2018, subsp. n.

Description

Poecilimon antalyaensis anemurium Kaya, Chobanov & Çıplak subsp. n.

(H in Figures 2–13, Figures 14F, 17B, 18, 21, 22)

Material examined. Holotype, male, TURKEY, Antalya, road to Anamur-Mersin, 116 m, 25.iv.2015, 36.18655o N, 32.42823o E, leg. B. Çıplak, S. Kaya & D. Chobanov (in alcohol) (AUZM). Paratypes: TURKEY: 10 MM, (5nymph), 12 FF (11nymph), Antalya, road to Anamur-Mersin, 36.18655o N, 32.42823o E, 116m, 36.10496o N, 0 32. 57777o E, 120 m, 36.060571o N, 32.654646o E, 208m, 25.iv.2015, 36.092920o N, 0 32.611580o E, 440 m, 26.iv.2015, leg. B. Çıplak, S. Kaya & D. Chobanov (in alcohol) (sound record), (3 MM and 4 FF in CC; other in AUZM); 1 F, Antalya, Gazipaşa, Macar Village, 50 m, 21.iv.2001 (AUZM); 2 FF, Antalya, above Gazipasa (near Ilıca), 36.399o N, 32.381o E, 800 m, 10.vii.2002, leg. K.- G. Heller (CH: CH 5664-5).

Diagnosis. The new subspecies P. antalyaensis anemurium differs from the other two subspecies mainly by the following characters (compare H with F and G in Figures 2–13); male subgenital plate with a convex caudal margin (Figure 11H) (concave in other two forms); male cerci almost straight in basal 3/4 and incurved in 1/4 and elongated inwards directed part and tapered apex (with short and robust apex in other two); the higher number of stridulatory pegs (> 100(98) in P. antalyaensis anemurium; <92 in other two forms), the short and robust ovipositor (ratio length/medial width 3.9–4.1 in P. antalyaensis anemurium;> 4.9–5.6 in P. antalyaensis antalyaensis) and male calling song (see Figures 17–18).

Etymology. Named according to the antic city “Anemurium” in the district of Anamur, a town belonging to Mersin Province of Turkey.

Notes

Published as part of Kaya, Sarp, Chobanov, Dragan, Heller, Klaus-Gerhard, Yahyaoğlu, Özgül, Uluar, Onur & Çiplak, Battal, 2018, Review of Poecilimon species with inflated pronotum: description of four new taxa within an acoustically diverse group, pp. 451-482 in Zootaxa 4462 (4) on pages 473-475, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4462.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1441747

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