Preliminary description of new Isophya (Orthoptera: Tettigonioidea: Phaneropteridae): From Serbia with remarks on some known species

Abstract

Out of over 45 species of the genus Isophya in Europe, six of them have been recorded in Serbia thus far (Adamović, 1975; Pavićević et al., 2014b). Of these six species, two have been described from Serbia - Isophya modestior Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1882 (Niš - Bela Palanka) and Isophya obtusa Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1882 (Stara Planina Mt. - Tri Čuke). The species Isophya miksici Peshev, 1985 recorded at the Beljanica Mt. in eastern Serbia is new for the fauna of Serbia. This paper presents the preliminary descriptions of three new taxa, Isophya radmilae sp. n. from Radan Mt., Isophya pancici sp. n. from Tara and Zlatibor Mts. and Isophya clara orientalis ssp. n. from Belgrade (Miljakovac and Stepin Lug). The morphology of the new taxa has been analyzed with an overview of the relevant sketches and scans of stridulatory files of males.

Keywords

• phaneropteridae
• isophya
• new taxa
• new faunistic data
• serbia