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Published: 2019-06-07
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A new rare species of Oedipoda Latreille, 1829 (Orthoptera: Acrididae) from South Italy

Fondazione Edmund Mach di San Michele all’Adige, Via E. Mach 1, 38010 S. Michele all’Adige (Trento), Italy
Fondazione Museo Civico di Rovereto, Borgo Santa Caterina 41, 38068 Rovereto (Trento), Italy;
University of Palermo, Department of Agricultural, Food and Forest Sciences, Viale delle Scienze Bd. 5, 90128 Palermo, Italy.
Orthoptera Mediterranean Apulia Taxonomy Affinities

Abstract

Oedipoda cynthiae n. sp. (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Oedipodinae) is described from Apulia (South Italy). In the past, the same population here considered had been assigned to O. miniata and later to O. charpentieri. Morphological features, biogeographical considerations, and a preliminary molecular analysis confirm that this population must be assigned to a new species, which is described and illustrated here.

 

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