Roeseliana oporina ( Bolívar, 1887 )

Massa, Bruno, Tagliavia, Marcello, Buzzetti, Filippo Maria, Fontana, Paolo, Carotti, Giovanni, Bardiani, Marco, Leandri, Fausto, Scherini, Roberto & Verde, Gabriella Lo, 2023, A taxonomic revision of the Palaearctic genus Roeseliana (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Tettigoniinae: Platycleidini): a case of ongoing Mediterranean speciation, Zootaxa 5270 (3), pp. 351-400 : 367

Roeseliana oporina ( Bolívar, 1887)

Figs. 2d , 5k , 6c , 8d , 10 , 23g

Bolívar, 1887. An. Soc. Espan. Hist. Nat., 16: 108 ( Platycleis oporina ); type locality and depository: Spain, Cuenca, Uclés near Saelices , Castillo de Castillejo ( MNCN, Madrid) .

Material examined. Spain, Uclés (lectotypus ♁) ( MNCN) .

Remarks. R. oporina was described in Platycleis , but Zeuner (1941) moved it to Roeseliana ; Harz (1969) listed it in Metrioptera , subgenus Roeseliana, Massa & Fontana (2011) in Metrioptera . Only recently R. oporina was rediscovered and described again by Gutiérrez-Rodríguez & García-París (2016), who established definitively that it is belongs to Roeseliana . Morphological characters suggest that it is related to R. azami , but not to R. roeselii . R. oporina has male titillators not much apically hooked, with only small apical spines, the female subgenital plate is similar to that of R. azami , but male cerci are a little similar to those of R. roeselii . The lectotype has tegmina covering the abdomen, while specimens depicted by Gutiérrez-Rodríguez & García-París (2016) are more brachypterous. See also Tables 2 and 4 .

Distribution. Cuenca region ( Spain).

Figures

FIGURE 2. Ovipositor of three other taxa of Roeseliana (different populations) in lateral view. In 2a the method to measure the angle between the base of the ovipositor and a line intersected between it and the ovipositor tip (named “ovipositor angle” in the text) is explained.

FIGURE 5. Male titillators of different taxa/populations of the genus Roeseliana.

FIGURE 6. Dorsal view of the male supragenital plate and cerci of four taxa of Roeseliana.

FIGURE 8. Ventral view of the female subgenital plate of six taxa of Roeseliana.

FIGURE 10. Habitus of five taxa of the genus Roeseliana.

FIGURE 23. Roeseliana males. a) R. ambitiosa, Macedonia (photo: M. Lemonnier-Darcemont); b) R. ambitiosa, Greece (photo: F. Rutschmann); c) R. brunneri, Friuli, Italy (photo: F. Tami); d) Roeseliana n. sp. Lemonnier-Darcemont & Darcemont, in press, Greece (photo: M. Lemonnier-Darcemont); e) R. azami minor, Lombardy, Italy (photo: R. Scherini); f) R. azami minor, Marche, Italy (photo: G. Carotti); g) R. oporina, Spain (photo: R. Kleukers); h) R. azami, France (photo: V. Derreumaux).