Review and key to species of Platycleis from Turkey (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) with descriptions of Yalvaciana subgen. n. and two new species

Heller, Klaus‐Gerhard; Demirsoy, Ali; Çıplak, Battal

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“…Authors (e.g. La Greca 1959, Harz 1969, Willemse 1984, 1985, Çiplak et al 2002 generally consider Tessellana nigrosignata present in the Balkan peninsula and Turkey. It has been described by Costa (1863) from Calabria (Italy), and differs from Balkan specimens, which should be identified as T. orina.…”

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Supraspecific taxonomy of Palaearctic Platycleidini with unarmed prosternum: a morphological approach (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae, Tettigoniinae)

Massa

Fontana

2011

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Authors analysed 33 supraspecific taxa of Palaearctic Platycleidini with unarmed prosternum, most of them hitherto considered genera or subgenera of Platycleis and Metrioptera. For each of them they give a short description of the characters revealing the correct classification of males and females. Then, they propose a more consistent classification, when both males and females of a supraspecific taxon are clearly distinct, they should be elevated to distinct genera. On the whole, they propose to classify Palaearctic taxa into 32 genera, for which they propose a key based on the characters used in this paper and illustrated by 140 photographs. Additionally, they describe the following new genera: Sardoplatycleis for Platycleis galvagnii from Sardinia, Amedegnatiana for Parnassiana vicheti from Mediterranean France; and the following new species: Platycleis buzzettii from Iran and Squamiana bressani from Uzbekistan. For each genus they list all the species known, pointing out also those which, for scarcity of specimens, have been tentatively classified within that genus and that probably should be better assigned to another one. Further, they synonymise Incertana with Decorana, define the actual taxonomical status of the group Roeseliana roeselii, R. fedtschenkoi, R. azami and R. brunneri, reinstate Tessellana carinata from Balkan peninsula, establish that T. nigrosignata is restricted only to S Italy, while in Balkan peninsula its related T. orina occurs.

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“…Remarks. Squamiana species are associated with steppic zones of medium-high mountains (Tarbinsky 1939, Pravdin 1969, Çiplak et al 2002. The female of the type species (S. squamiptera) is characterized by the last tergite widely incised (Uvarov 1912).…”

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Supraspecific taxonomy of Palaearctic Platycleidini with unarmed prosternum: a morphological approach (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae, Tettigoniinae)

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Fontana

2011

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“…The decline in area of permanent grasslands has been even greater on loess steppes than in the region as a whole; permanent grassland on loess steppes occupied 10% of the total area of Pannonia in 1840, 1.4% in the 1990s, and 1.8% at the beginning of the twentyfirst century. Platycleis vittata occurs in southeastern Europe, southern Russia, northeastern Turkey, northern Iran, Transcaucasia, and Turkestan (Ciplak et al 2002). The northwestern edge of its range is in the Pannonian part of eastern Austria and the Czech Republic (Franz 1961;Kaltenbach 1970;Holusa and Chladek 1998).…”

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Platycleis vittata (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) in the northwestern part of its range is close to extinction: is this the result of landscape changes?

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The northwestern distributions of several steppe species of Orthoptera extend to the southeastern part of the Czech Republic (Pannonia) and occupy more or less isolated fragments of optimal habitats. Their distributional limits are not conditioned by macroclimate in most cases but reflect landscape development (physical structure, plant community type and microclimate) and the insects' dispersal abilities. These species prefer permanent grassland, and assessment of land use records indicates that the area occupied by permanent grassland has been greatly reduced by agriculture over the last two centuries. The area occupied by permanent grasslands in Pannonia was highest in the nineteenth century, declined until the second half of the twentieth century, and slightly increased at the beginning of the twenty first century. These changes in the area of permanent grassland generally reflect economic and political processes; in particular, consolidation of land plots and expropriation of private property brought an end to grazing. The distribution of a model Orthoptera specialist, Platycleis vittata, on steppe habitats was surveyed at 48 potentially suitable locations from 2004 to 2010. The survey determined that the area with suitable habitat is currently very limited at all 48 locations. Occurrence was confirmed in just two locations that are 3 km apart. The research suggests that Platycleis vittata in the Czech Republic is on the brink of extinction because of extreme fragmentation of suitable biotopes and degradation of optimal habitats.

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“…Moreover, Turkey, and especially Anatolia, is a biologically diverse region mainly due to the variable topography and climate, which provide many macro-and microhabitats. Turkey also forms a natural bridge between Asia and Europe in the south and also links to the Ethiopian region via the Arabian peninsula, thus providing a natural pathway for the spread of species both north-south and east-west (Tchernov, 1992;Çıplak et al, 2002). It is remarkable that although Anatolia includes areas of great diversity of landscapes and habitats, there are no Anatolian endemic species among the Turkish Sphecodes.…”

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A contribution to the kleptoparasitic bees of Turkey: Part I.,the genus Sphecodes Latreille (Hymenoptera: Halictidae)

Özbek¹,

Bogusch²,

Straka³

2015

Turk J Zool

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Halictidae is one of the largest bee families with about 3500 species (Pesenko, 2007) in 72 genera and 4 subfamilies (Rophitinae, Nomiinae, Halictinae, and Nomioidinae), known as sweat bees, a very diverse group found worldwide but especially abundant in temperate regions (Engel, 2005;Michener, 2007). The subfamily Halictinae, with approximately 2900 species (Ascher and Pickering, 2015), is divided into 2 tribes, Augochlorini and Halictini; the first one occurs in the western hemisphere, while Halictini has worldwide distribution (Michener, 2007). Among the 49 genera in the tribe Halictini the genus Sphecodes Latreille, 1804 is the only common and widespread kleptoparasitic taxon (Michener, 2007;Bogusch and Straka, 2012).The members of Sphecodes are usually black with a partially or wholly red metasoma, but in some species the metasoma can be all black. Mainly, the thorax is coarsely pitted and the dorsal surface of the propodeum is marked by coarse, often irregular longitudinal rugae, often delimiting shining spaces. The head is usually much wider than long (Michener, 2007;Bogusch and Straka, 2012). They are minute to moderate in size, ranging from 4.5 to 15 mm long.Sphecodes is common on all continents except Australia, where it is known only from the northeast. In the Palearctic region it occurs from the Canary Islands

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Review and key to species of Platycleis from Turkey (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) with descriptions of Yalvaciana subgen. n. and two new species

Cited by 14 publications

References 4 publications

Supraspecific taxonomy of Palaearctic Platycleidini with unarmed prosternum: a morphological approach (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae, Tettigoniinae)

Supraspecific taxonomy of Palaearctic Platycleidini with unarmed prosternum: a morphological approach (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae, Tettigoniinae)

Platycleis vittata (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) in the northwestern part of its range is close to extinction: is this the result of landscape changes?

A contribution to the kleptoparasitic bees of Turkey: Part I.,the genus Sphecodes Latreille (Hymenoptera: Halictidae)

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