Eur. J. Entomol. 103 (4): 853-865, 2006 | DOI: 10.14411/eje.2006.116

Bioacoustics and systematics of the Poecilimon heroicus-group (Orthoptera: Phaneropteridae: Barbitistinae)

Klaus-Gerhard HELLER1, Olga S. KORSUNOVSKAYA2, Hasan SEVGILI3, Roustem D. ZHANTIEV2
1 Grillenstieg 18, 39120 Magdeburg, Germany; e-mail: Heller.volleth@t-online.de
2 Department of Entomology, Moscow Lomonosov State University, Vorobiovy Gory, Moscow 119992, Russia; e-mails: korsuno@aport.ru; zhantiev@mail.ru
3 Harran Üniversitesi, Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi, Biyoloji BGlümü, Osmanbey Kampüsü, Sanliurfa, Turkey; e-mail: hsevgili@harran.edu.tr

The species of the Poecilimon heroicus-group occur around the Caucasus (from north-eastern Turkey to south-eastern Ukraine). We describe the diagnostic morphological characters of all these species and the male calling song of three of the four species. Based on this data the following phylogenetic relationship is derived (P. tschorochensis (P. tricuspis (P. heroicus, P. bifenestratus))). Within the genus Poecilimon, the species can be recognised by a relatively wide pronotum and large tegmina. In one species, Poecilimon tschorochensis Adelung, 1907 (type species of the monotypic genus Artvinia Karabag, 1962, syn. n.; P. rammei Miram, 1938, syn. n.), the tegmina are very large and the song has unusually low spectral components. This species produced di-syllabic echemes at intervals of about 10 s. In two other species of the group, P. heroicus and P. bifenestratus, the calling song of males consists of an uninterrupted dense sequence of long syllables (syllable duration around 0.5 s; ca. 1 syllable/s at 20°C). In these species the auditory spiracles are reduced in size in both sexes, and the females have extremely small tegmina and are unable to respond to the male song acoustically, which would be typical for Phaneropteridae. The change in communication from acoustically responding to mute females has not been previously documented within a group of closely related species.

Keywords: Orthoptera, Poecilimon, morphology, systematics, bioacoustics, Tettigonioidea, bush-crickets, communication system, evolution

Received: January 27, 2006; Revised: April 28, 2006; Accepted: April 28, 2006; Published: October 2, 2006  Show citation

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HELLER, K., KORSUNOVSKAYA, O.S., SEVGILI, H., & ZHANTIEV, R.D. (2006). Bioacoustics and systematics of the Poecilimon heroicus-group (Orthoptera: Phaneropteridae: Barbitistinae). EJE, 103(4), 853-865. doi: 10.14411/eje.2006.116
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