“…Such character‐based species definitions imply a direct link to a mechanism of reproductive isolation, and such characters are, therefore, a prime candidate for understanding the bush cricket's diversification (Heller et al, 2015; Heller & Hemp, 2020). However, sometimes there are individuals of intermediate morphologies between species, which has fuelled taxonomic discrepancies (Borissov et al, 2023; Chobanov et al, 2015; Kaya et al, 2012; Ramme, 1933; Tarbinsky, 1932; Ünal, 2012; Zhantiev & Korsunovskaya, 2015). Moreover, variation in the cerci (namely, in length, curvature, thickness, apical structure and the number/orientation of distal teeth) and variation in temporal parameters of the three types of male calling song (see Chobanov et al, 2015; Kaya et al, 2012) may represent a breakdown of reproductive barriers, or the ephemerality of incipient species divergences (Rosenblum et al, 2012).…”