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Issue: Vol. 5447 No. 1: 3 May 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-05-03
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5447.1.9
Page range: 133-139
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Clarification of taxonomic status of Pseudochorthippus geminus (Mistshenko, 1951) (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Gomphocerinae) based on male calling song analysis

Department of Entomology; Faculty of Biology; M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University; Vorobyevy Gory; Moscow; 119234 Russia
Orthoptera Grasshoppers acoustic signal taxonomy Central Asia Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan

Abstract

Pseudochorthippus geminus is redescribed and illustrated based on specimens from southern Kazakhstan and northern Kyrgyzstan. Oscillograms of the male calling songs of P. geminus from these localities and of P. parallelus from southern Kazakhstan are given. Comparative analysis of the song temporal patterns of P. geminus and P. parallelus clearly indicates that they represent separate biological species, but the morphological differences between them are indistinct and do not always provide reliable characters for species diagnostics.

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