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Issue: Vol. 1923 No. 1: 5 Nov. 2008
Type: Article
Published: 2008-11-05
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1923.1.1
Page range: 1–17
Abstract views: 37
PDF downloaded: 25

The genus Dolichopoda in Greece. A description of new species from the Ionian Regions and Peloponnisos (Orthoptera, Rhaphidophoridae)

Dipartimento di Biologia Animale e dell’Uomo, Universita’degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Viale dell’Universita’32, 00185 Roma, Italy
Dipartimento di Biologia Animale e dell’Uomo, Universita’degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Viale dell’Universita’32, 00185 Roma, Italy
Dipartimento di Biologia Animale e dell’Uomo, Universita’degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Viale dell’Universita’32, 00185 Roma, Italy
Dipartimento di Biologia Animale e dell’Uomo, Universita’degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Viale dell’Universita’32, 00185 Roma, Italy
Orthoptera cave cricket Dolichopoda new species Greece

Abstract

Description of five new Dolichopoda species from the Ionian area of Western Greece together with a description of the female for D. pavesii from Kefalonia island and the male of D. dalensi from North-eastern Peloponnisos are reported. Considering the other 6 species already documented in the area (including the North of the Peloponnisos), there is now a total of 11 recorded species of Dolichopoda which currently inhabit the underground areas of this zone. These new data, therefore, help better define the already high diversity of the genus in the Hellenic region (25 species in all) reinforcing the hypothesis that there was a central area of dispersion of the Dolichopoda in the ancient Aegean plate.

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