A Review of the Canarian Sphingonotini with Description of a New Species from Fuerteventura (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Oedipodinae)
Axel Hochkirch and Martin Husemann (2008) The Canarian representatives of the tribe Sphingonotini (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Oedipodinae) are revised, and a molecular phylogeny based on mitochondrial (mt)DNA sequences (ND5) is presented. The genera Wernerella, Pseudosphingonotus, and Neosphingonotus are synonymized with Sphingonotus. A new grasshopper species from Fuerteventura, Sphingonotus fuerteventurae sp. nov., is described and compared with the Canarian Sphingonotini and some closely related West-Mediterranean species. Some information on the distribution and ecology of the new species is given, and a key to the Canarian species of Sphingonotus is presented.
Keywords
Taxonomy, Canary Is., Cryptic species, Sphingonotini, Sphingonotus.
