Eupholidoptera megastyla Ramme, 1939 ♂
Common names: Ευφολιδόπτερη μεγάστυλη [Gr]
With thanks to Luc Willemse for the ID.
Kalipefki, LARISSA ● Greece
Description: The genus Eupholidoptera includes 47 Mediterranean species distributed from Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel to Greece, Italy and southern France.
Morphologically, the species of Eupholidoptera are rather uniform and identification can be difficult. In particular, females of most species are very alike those of the type species and in some cases almost impossible to distinguish. Morphological identification has been mostly done by examining male abdominal terminalia (Karabağ, 1961; Willemse, 1980; Ünal & Naskrecki, 2002; Ünal, 2006) but female terminalia are also valuable and have been used in their taxonomy (Ramme, 1930, 1951; Bey-Bienko, 1967; Harz, 1969; Adamovic, 1972; Salman, 1983; Tilmans, 2002).
On Eupholidoptera megastyla, the epiphallus is very slender, the extending apical parts are very close together, in lateral view not or scarcely recurved, almost as long as length of fused parts, which is slender with plate-like expansions but slightly developed. The epiphallus varies considerably in length.
Distribution: Greece (Peloponnesus, Southern continental Greece, SW Macedonia, SE Epirus, Evia island and Ionian island of Zakinthos), South East Italy.
References:
F. Willemse, 1980. Classification and Distribution of the species of Eupholidoptera Ramme of Greece (Orthoptera, Tettigonioidea, Decticinae), Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 123:54.
M. Mofidi-Neyestanaki & D.L.J. Quicke, 2007. Eupholidoptera karatolosi sp.n. and E. mirzayani sp.n. (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae), two new bushcrickets from Greece and Iran, Zootaxa 1562: 43–53.
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