@article {47513, title = {New data on the bush-cricket Montana medvedevi (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae), critically endangered in Europe (EU 28), and a comparison of its song with all known song patterns within the genus}, journal = {Zootaxa}, volume = {4263}, year = {2017}, pages = {527-542}, chapter = {527}, abstract = {

Montana medvedevi is reported for the first time from Serbia. New information about the distribution, morphology and song of this species is discussed. The song of M. medvedevi is different from that of all other members of the genus, all figured for comparison. Montana is quite diverse regarding the amplitude pattern of the calling song of its members (known in 15 species). Surprisingly, some Montana species seem to have two song patterns, one produced during the day and one at night.

}, keywords = {bioacoustics, distribution, Platycleidini, Serbia}, doi = {10.11646/zootaxa.4263.3.5}, author = {Slobodan Ivkovi{\'c} and Ionut Stefan Iorgu and Laslo Horvat and Dragan Petrov Chobanov and Olga S. Korsunovskaya and Klaus-Gerhard Heller} } @article {47346, title = {Evolution and systematics of Green Bush-crickets (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Tettigonia) in the Western Palaearctic: testing concordance between molecular, acoustic, and morphological data}, journal = {Organisms Diversity \& Evolution}, volume = {17}, year = {2017}, month = {Jan-03-2017}, pages = {213 - 228}, abstract = {

The genus Tettigonia includes 26 species distributed in the Palaearctic region. Though the Green Bush-crickets are widespread in Europe and common in a variety of habitats throughout the Palaearctic ecozone, the genus is still in need of scientific attention due to the presence of a multitude of poorly explored taxa. In the present study, we sought to clarify the evolutionary relationships of Green Bush-crickets and the composition of taxa occurring in the Western Palaearctic. Based on populations from 24 disjunct localities, the phylogeny of the group was estimated using sequences of the cytochrome oxidase subunit I (COI) and the internal transcribed spacers 1 and 2 (ITS1 and ITS2). Morphological and acoustic variation documented for the examined populations and taxa was interpreted in the context of phylogenetic relationships inferred from our genetic analyses. The trees generated in the present study supported the existence of three main lineages: \“A\”\—composed of all sampled populations of Tettigonia viridissima and the Tettigonia vaucheriana complex, \“B\”\—comprising Tettigonia caudata, Tettigonia uvarovi, and the Tettigonia armeniaca complex, and \“C\”\—consisting of Tettigonia cantans. The present study provides the first phylogenetic foundation for reviewing the systematics of Tettigonia (currently classified mostly according to morphological characteristics), proposing seven new synonymies.

}, keywords = {bioacoustics, mtDNA, phylogeny, rDNA, Tettigonia}, issn = {1439-6092}, doi = {10.1007/s13127-016-0313-3}, url = {http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s13127-016-0313-3}, author = {Grzywacz, Beata and Klaus-Gerhard Heller and Warcha{\l}owska-{\'S}liwa, El{\.z}bieta and Karamysheva, Tatyana V. and Dragan Petrov Chobanov} } @article {16410, title = {The unexpected finding of Parapholidoptera castaneoviridis in south-eastern Romania (Insecta, Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae)}, journal = {ZooKeys}, volume = {643}, year = {2017}, month = {Jun-01-2017}, pages = {87 - 96}, abstract = {

The Balkano-Anatolian genus Parapholidoptera comprises 21 species and the westernmost one, Parapholidoptera castaneoviridis, previously recognized to occur in western Turkey, north-eastern Greece and south-eastern Bulgaria is recorded for the first time from south-eastern Romania, almost 300 km away from the closest known locality. Illustrations and measurements of morphological characters are given and the male calling song from this new, northernmost population is described.

}, keywords = {Balkan Peninsula, bush-cricket, calling song, distribution, relict population}, issn = {1313-2989}, doi = {10.3897/zookeys.643.10645}, url = {http://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=10645}, author = {Ionut Stefan Iorgu and Dragan Petrov Chobanov and Elena Iulia Iorgu} }