Mecopoda macassariensis ( Haan, 1843 ), 2021

Heller, Klaus-Gerhard, Baker, Ed, Ingrisch, Sigfrid, Korsunovskaya, Olga, Liu, Chun-Xiang, Riede, Klaus & Warchałowska-Šliwa, Elżbieta, 2021, Bioacoustics and systematics of Mecopoda (and related forms) from South East Asia and adjacent areas (Orthoptera, Tettigonioidea, Mecopodinae) including some chromosome data, Zootaxa 5005 (2), pp. 101-144 : 119-120

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5005.2.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:6DF7D106-A8FD-4670-AC09-18166D7F4BD4

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5856213

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/038387A4-FFAE-7764-FF4F-F8AAFA3996AF

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Plazi

scientific name

Mecopoda macassariensis ( Haan, 1843 )
status

stat. nov.

Mecopoda macassariensis ( Haan, 1843) View in CoL stat. rev.

Holotype male, RMNH.INS.1256442 ( Indonesia, Sulawesi, Makassar ). NBC.

From its broad mirror area (length/width = 1.44), the species belongs to the niponensis subgroup. In tooth number (93) and inter-tooth distances it is very similar to M. himalaya ( Fig. 11 View FIGURE 11 , 12 View FIGURE 12 ). Since M. himalaya is quite widespread, both names could refer to the same species with macassariensis having priority.

However, even species with quite similar files can have very different songs (see below; M. fallax and M. s. stridulata ). Since wrong combining is more difficult to restore than wrong splitting, we remain on the safe side and consider at the moment M. macassariensis as a species endemic to Sulawesi. Data on its song are urgently needed.

RMNH

National Museum of Natural History, Naturalis

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Orthoptera

Family

Tettigoniidae

Genus

Mecopoda

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