taxonID	type	description	language	source
03BE87899144FFF7FF4BF8896DD33322.taxon	description	The new Albanian species clearly belong to the cluster of species of the four genera Amedegnatiana, Montana, Parnassiana and Metrioptera s. str. Species in the latter genera show general resemblance in the shape of pronotum, male cerci, ovipositor, tegmina (if reduced), epiphallus, as well as in coloration having two colour variants — brownish ones and specimens in which the pronotum and vertex are deep green. Amedegnatiana was described by Massa & Fontana (2011) for a single species, A. vicheti (Delmas & Rambier), found in a small region in southern France. Morphological characters mentioned in the description to separate this genus from Parnassiana, in which it was originally placed, are the shape of pronotum, male anal tergite, female subgenital plate and ovipositor. The two Albanian species quite closely resemble Amedegnatiana, but they differ in the pronotum (pronotal disc more flattened in Amedegnatiana) and the hind femur (wider in Amedegnatiana). Besides, in male Amedegnatiana the cercus is slimmer, with a small side tooth in the apical third, whereas, in the Albanian species the cercus is wider, the side tooth bigger and placed in the medial third. Females differ in the subgenital plate with the hind margin being straight in Amedegnatiana, excised in the middle in the new Albanian species, and in the ovipositor, which is slimmer in the Albanian species. Montana was described by Zeuner (1941) for species in which the ovipositor is regularly curved, narrow, light coloured with a dark coloured tip, having relatively slender hind femora (opposed to Parnassiana with stout hind femora), and flattened pronotal disc (opposed to rounded as in Sepiana Zeuner). Montana consists of a rather heterogeneous group of species with considerable variation in the shape of pronotum, length of the fore wings, shape of the hind femur, male anal tergite, cercus and titillator, as well as the female subgenital plate and ovipositor. The characters displayed by the new Albanian species do not differ from character states found across species assigned to Montana albeit some are only found in one or two species. Parnassiana was erected by Zeuner (1941) for a rather uniform group of species with stout hind femora, and relatively short fore wings. The new Albanian species share the stout hind femora, shortened wings, the shape of the male 10 th tergite and the rounded edges of the pronotum with Parnassiana. However, they differ from Parnassiana in the fore wings being slightly wider and longer (especially in females), the female subgenital plate being rectangular, without deep emargination and a slightly longer pronotum. Besides, the new Albanian species carry the distinct dark and light spots in the fore wings, typical of Platycleis sensu lato, but these spots are lacking in the fore wings of most species of Parnassiana. Metrioptera s. str. was redefined by Zeuner (1941) for species with shortened wings in which the female subgenital plate is bilobate, the 7 th sternite unmodified, the ovipositor is regularly curved and compressed, and the hind femora are slender. Like Montana, the species of Metrioptera show variation in pronotum shape, wing length, absence or presence of black spots in the fore wing, shape of the hind femur, the male anal tergite and the ovipositor. In addition to the black spots on the fore wings, which are lacking in most species of Metrioptera (but present in M. hoermanni and M. karnyana), the new Albanian species have a more convex pronotum, shorter fore wings, and the hind femur is more compact. Males also differ in the titillator, which in the new Albanian species has spines on both apical and basal arms, whereas in Metrioptera spines are only present on the apical arm. Females differ in the ovipositor being wider and more curved in Metrioptera but again this is less so in M. hoermanni and M. karnyana. In song pattern, both new species differ clearly from all other Montana and Metrioptera s. str. species with known song (see Heller 1988; Ingrisch & Pavic ́ evic ́ 2012; Ivković et al. 2017). They are also easily distinguished from Parnassiana species, which all have complex echemes (phrases) consisting of microsyllable and macrosyllable part, both composed of pairs of syllables (Heller 1988; Willemse et al. 2018). Amedegnatiana vicheti, however, seems to have a quite variable song with different patterns during day and night (Barataud 2025). Here more research is necessary to achieve safe conclusions. Overall, the new taxa considered here fit less well into Amedegnatiana, Parnassiana and Metrioptera, while showing a good match with Montana. Because differences with Montana are small, the erection of a new genus is not required, and thus the new species have been assigned to Montana.	en	Puskás, Gellért, Lemonnier-Darcemont, Michèle, Willemse, Luc, Chobanov, Dragan, Heller, Klaus-Gerhard, Halimi, Eltjon, Darcemont, Christian, Kotitsa, Nefeli, Szövényi, Gergely (2026): Montana tomorri and Montana dani (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae), two new species of bush-crickets from the mountains of south Albania. Zootaxa 5828 (2): 225-255, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5828.2.3, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5828.2.3
03BE8789914EFFEFFF4BFF106CF532D6.taxon	materials_examined	Holotype male: ALBANIA, TOMORR Mt.: 03. VII. 2015, N 40.61618 ° E 20.18578 °, 1880 m, CCh; dry prepared, pinned, left hind leg and right antenna missing. Allotype female: same locality, CCh; dry prepared, pinned, left hind leg and the apical half of right front tibia with the tarsal segments missing. Paratypes: Table 1.	en	Puskás, Gellért, Lemonnier-Darcemont, Michèle, Willemse, Luc, Chobanov, Dragan, Heller, Klaus-Gerhard, Halimi, Eltjon, Darcemont, Christian, Kotitsa, Nefeli, Szövényi, Gergely (2026): Montana tomorri and Montana dani (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae), two new species of bush-crickets from the mountains of south Albania. Zootaxa 5828 (2): 225-255, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5828.2.3, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5828.2.3
03BE8789914EFFEFFF4BFF106CF532D6.taxon	description	Description of holotype male (Fig. 3): Medium-sized (Body length 22.5 mm but enlarged due to the pulled out titillators). General coloration ochre-brown, frons and lower side of body ochre; dorsal side of fastigium, vertex and pronotum disc greenish; vertex, lateral from the green color, with two lateral dark areas cut by a thin light stripe; lateral sides of pronotum disk bordered with incurved ochre line; pronotum paranota dark brown becoming blackish posteriorly, bordered with wide whitish band at their ventral and posterior margins (except for the posterior-dorsal corner); tegmina reaching the third abdominal tergite; subcostal, radial and medial veins light ochre in the basal area, stridulatory field ochre-brown with darker spots and veins, the rest of tegmina darker with dark veins and dark spots in the apical area outside the stridulatory area; abdominal tergites light brown, with two light bands laterally at the dorsal side, lateral side of terga with a wide vertical black spot at their posterior area; cercus ochre colored, armed with a long sinuated spine located at its apical third to fourth, the spine rusty colored; titillators rusty-brown, robust, with the apical arms outcurved and vetro-laterally arcuate, apical arms and small area of the basal arms covered with spines at their anterior parts; legs ochre-brown with dark spots dorso-laterally, hind femora with thin longitudinal dark band on the outer side and a wide dark spot on the inner side. Description of allotype female (Fig. 4): Medium-sized (Body length 19.8 mm). Coloration as in male with the following specifics. Dorsal side of fastigium, vertex and pronotum disc dark green; tegmina with the base of the radial and medial veins of ochre coloration, the rest of tegmen brownish with darker veins and spots in between; ovipositor ochre-brown, with a blackish base and dorsal side of the upper valve; both outer valves darkened and slightly greenish at the tips. General description (see also Supplementary Figures 1 – 7). Male. Head not wider than pronotum, fastigium verticis very wide, 2.1 – 2.5 times wider than scapus. Pronotum rounded, almost cylindrical, without evident lateral edges; widening backwards, hind margin just exceeding mesonotum. Dorsal disc rounded in the prozona, metazona flat, slightly depressed in the middle, with wide median carina. Paranota stretch widely ventrally, hind margin slightly concave (humeral excision indistinct). Tegmina wide, in natural position overlapping, exceeding 2 nd abdominal tergite, apex broadly rounded. Tegmina light at the medial part (the stridulatory area and the triangle projecting backwards from it), usually contrasting with the darker apical part. The distal section (from the end of the mirror to the apex) about the same length as the proximal section. The distal part of the longitudinal veins (Sc, R, M) curving towards the middle, so that the apex of the tegmen high and convex (tips of the tegmina meet, radial and medial areas are vertical rather than horizontal). Hind wings exist but rudimentary. Fore tibiae with 3 outer and 6 inner spines. Postfemora stocky, the evenly thin apical part is shorter than one third of the total length (i. e. the dorsal and ventral edges of the femur are not parallel in the apical third of its length). Posttibiae with four apical spurs, two outer ones much longer than inner ones. Plantulae shorter than basal segment of hind tarsi. Anal tergite wide, deeply depressed, with two crescent lobes regularly bending to the middle (to each other), often forming a round excision between them. The last 3 – 4 (depending on the specimen) tergites with dense, long hairs in the median part; the cuticle here softer, leathery. The hairy and leathery medial part of the anal tergites different in colour from the adjacent area. The subgenital plate long, with the widest part in the basal third, with a short triangular emargination between styli. Cerci long, the apical part slightly outward bent, slightly thinning backwards on both the thick basal part and the thin apical part; the apical part straight with slightly outward facing central axis (in relation to the axis of the basal part). The inner tooth thin; located in the distal third of the cerci; about twice as long as wide at the base; with an abrupt thinning that results a wave at the inner edge. The apical arm of the titillator robust, moderately long, downwards curving, with a thin base and straight apical part, strongly spinulose at the dorsal and lateral side; the basal arm without spines (at least at the junction with the apical arm). Female. As in male with the following characteristics. Subgenital plate smooth, wide rectangular, without deep emargination, at most slightly concave at hind margin, V-shaped in caudal view (therefore, appears to be excised in caudoventral view). Sternites without any modifications. Anal tergite with two terminal lobes concave on their outer margin, giving the hind borderline of the tergite a semicircular shape. Ovipositor more than twice as long as pronotum, slightly and evenly upcurved, less compressed laterally, the ventral margin finely serrate apically, light in colour including the upper margin. Hind margin of pronotum widely rounded, medial carina at the metazona moderately wide. Cubital veins of the left tegmen generally light coloured, CuPb curved, more or less closer to the inner margin of the tegmen than to CuA. The tip of the tegmina convex. Longitudinal black spot at the outer side of hind femora distinct, with sharp borders, on a pale background; transverse stripes absent.	en	Puskás, Gellért, Lemonnier-Darcemont, Michèle, Willemse, Luc, Chobanov, Dragan, Heller, Klaus-Gerhard, Halimi, Eltjon, Darcemont, Christian, Kotitsa, Nefeli, Szövényi, Gergely (2026): Montana tomorri and Montana dani (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae), two new species of bush-crickets from the mountains of south Albania. Zootaxa 5828 (2): 225-255, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5828.2.3, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5828.2.3
03BE8789914EFFEFFF4BFF106CF532D6.taxon	biology_ecology	Bioacoustics: The calling song (Fig. 5) consists of repeated echemes with a duration of less than one second, often less than half a second. In an echeme there are typically 10 – 30 syllables, each consisting of a quiet opening and a loud closing hemisyllable. The amplitude of the syllables typically increases at the beginning, but sometimes an echeme starts also with one or two loud syllables. The mean syllable repetition rate varied between around 23 Hz (in 21 ˚ C) and 39 Hz (at 27.5 ºC). The repetition rate of the echemes is quite variable, measured between 0.2 and 70 echemes per minute. The males stridulate in the night and in the morning. The frequency spectrum shows a broad peak in the near-ultrasound: peak 18 – 23 kHz; 6 specimens (Fig. 6). Measurements: Measurements performed on holotype and paratypes are provided in Table 6.	en	Puskás, Gellért, Lemonnier-Darcemont, Michèle, Willemse, Luc, Chobanov, Dragan, Heller, Klaus-Gerhard, Halimi, Eltjon, Darcemont, Christian, Kotitsa, Nefeli, Szövényi, Gergely (2026): Montana tomorri and Montana dani (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae), two new species of bush-crickets from the mountains of south Albania. Zootaxa 5828 (2): 225-255, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5828.2.3, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5828.2.3
03BE8789914EFFEFFF4BFF106CF532D6.taxon	diagnosis	Differential diagnosis: Montana tomorri belongs to the short-winged morpho-type in the genus (Table 7). Among short-winged taxa, M. tomorri can be differentiated by the following combination of characters: pronotal disc flat or slightly convex, lateral edges rounded, tegmina about the length of pronotum, stocky wide hind femora, semicircular lobes of the male 10 th tergite with a very narrow incision between them, cerci with a large long tooth positioned in the proximal 1 / 3 of cercus, square female subgenital plate without clear incision, pronotum length in the range 4.4 – 6.0 mm. The most similar taxon seems to be M. heinrichi (Ramme), known from northern Iran (Elburs), though this species has narrower lobes and wider incision of the male 10 th abdominal tergum and larger size (pronotum 8.2 – 9.7 mm). M. richteri (Bey-Bienko) may be related to M. tomorri but this species is known only by female. The song of M. tomorri is similar to that of M. helleri (Çıplak & Taylan) (compare Ivković et al. 2017: Fig. 7 K) but morphologically both taxa are well distinguished by male cerci and 10 th abdominal tergite.	en	Puskás, Gellért, Lemonnier-Darcemont, Michèle, Willemse, Luc, Chobanov, Dragan, Heller, Klaus-Gerhard, Halimi, Eltjon, Darcemont, Christian, Kotitsa, Nefeli, Szövényi, Gergely (2026): Montana tomorri and Montana dani (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae), two new species of bush-crickets from the mountains of south Albania. Zootaxa 5828 (2): 225-255, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5828.2.3, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5828.2.3
03BE8789914EFFEFFF4BFF106CF532D6.taxon	distribution	Distribution: Endemic in the Tomorr (2416 m) and Kulmak (2174 m) Mts., above 1700 m.	en	Puskás, Gellért, Lemonnier-Darcemont, Michèle, Willemse, Luc, Chobanov, Dragan, Heller, Klaus-Gerhard, Halimi, Eltjon, Darcemont, Christian, Kotitsa, Nefeli, Szövényi, Gergely (2026): Montana tomorri and Montana dani (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae), two new species of bush-crickets from the mountains of south Albania. Zootaxa 5828 (2): 225-255, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5828.2.3, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5828.2.3
03BE8789914EFFEFFF4BFF106CF532D6.taxon	biology_ecology	Habitat: Grasslands with some bushes such as subalpine grasslands with Juniperus sp., rocky grasslands with stone screes in edge of pine forest but mostly above the tree line.	en	Puskás, Gellért, Lemonnier-Darcemont, Michèle, Willemse, Luc, Chobanov, Dragan, Heller, Klaus-Gerhard, Halimi, Eltjon, Darcemont, Christian, Kotitsa, Nefeli, Szövényi, Gergely (2026): Montana tomorri and Montana dani (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae), two new species of bush-crickets from the mountains of south Albania. Zootaxa 5828 (2): 225-255, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5828.2.3, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5828.2.3
03BE8789914EFFEFFF4BFF106CF532D6.taxon	etymology	Etymology: In the central Albanian mythology, Baba Tomorri (Father Tomorr) is the personification of Tomorr Mountain. Used as a noun, gender masculine.	en	Puskás, Gellért, Lemonnier-Darcemont, Michèle, Willemse, Luc, Chobanov, Dragan, Heller, Klaus-Gerhard, Halimi, Eltjon, Darcemont, Christian, Kotitsa, Nefeli, Szövényi, Gergely (2026): Montana tomorri and Montana dani (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae), two new species of bush-crickets from the mountains of south Albania. Zootaxa 5828 (2): 225-255, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5828.2.3, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5828.2.3
03BE87899150FFE9FF4BFBEA6CD631FF.taxon	materials_examined	Holotype (male): Albania, Përmet District, Mt. Trebeshinë above Podgoran, rocky grasslands, 1400 – 1750 m, N 40.359 ° E 20.099 ° – N 40.362 ° E 20.110 °, leg. Cs. Barkóczi & G. Puskás 23. VIII. 2014, HNHM (OrP 1850 a), dry prepared and pinned. Dimensions: body length 18.8 mm, pronotum length 6.1 mm, hind femur length 16.1 mm, width 4.2 mm, tegmen length 7.4 mm. Allotype (female): Albania, Përmet District, Mt. Trebeshinë above Podgoran, grazed mountain grasslands, 1880 m, N 40.354 ° E 20.093 °, leg. Cs. Barkóczi, E. Loçe, E. Mizsei, G. Puskás & M. Szabolcs 21 – 22. VIII. 2014, HNHM (OrP 1848 b), dry prepared and pinned. Paratypes: Table 2.	en	Puskás, Gellért, Lemonnier-Darcemont, Michèle, Willemse, Luc, Chobanov, Dragan, Heller, Klaus-Gerhard, Halimi, Eltjon, Darcemont, Christian, Kotitsa, Nefeli, Szövényi, Gergely (2026): Montana tomorri and Montana dani (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae), two new species of bush-crickets from the mountains of south Albania. Zootaxa 5828 (2): 225-255, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5828.2.3, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5828.2.3
03BE87899150FFE9FF4BFBEA6CD631FF.taxon	description	Description of holotype male (Fig. 7): Medium-sized (Body length 18.8 mm). General coloration ochre-brown, lower side of body and legs ochre; frons and genae ochre marbled with brown; dorsal site of fastigium, vertex and pronotum disc densely dotted with dark brown spots on a light brown background, with a light, thin longitudinal line in the middle; lateral sides of vertex and pronotal disk bordered with incurved ochre line (not entirely connected spots), disappearing in the metazona; paranota dark brown becoming blackish posteriorly, bordered with wide whitish band at their ventral and posterior margins (except for the posterior-dorsal corner); tegmina reaching the sixth abdominal tergite; subcostal and radial veins light ochre in their basal half, stridulatory area medium brown, the rest of tegmina darker with dark veins and dark spots in the apical area outside the stridulatory area; legs ochre-brown with dark spots dorso-laterally, hind femora with longitudinal dark band on the outer side and a wide dark spot on the inner side; abdominal tergites brown, with paler hind margin, lateral side of terga increasingly darker downward, with a wide vertical ochre band at the ventral edge; cerci light brown with a bit darker distal part, armed with a strong, reverse-curving spine located in middle, apical part of the spine blackish; titillators robust, with pale ochre basal arm and brown apical arm, apical arm narrowing distally, with downward and outcurving apex, apical arms and small area of the basal arms covered with spines at their dorsal and outer parts. Description of allotype female (Fig. 8): Medium-sized (Body length 18.1 mm). Coloration as in male with the following specifics. Dorsal side of fastigium, vertex and pronotum disc pale with two blackish spot on the occiput; tegmina reaching the fourth abdominal tergite, with the base of the subcostal, radial and medial veins of ochre coloration, the rest of tegmen brownish with darker veins and spots in between; ovipositor ochre-brown and darkening at the tip, with a blackish stripe at the base and at the whole upper margin. General description (see also Supplementary Figures 1 – 7). Medium-sized, brachypterous bush-crickets. Head not wider than pronotum, fastigium verticis about 2.5 times wider than scapus. Pronotum convex, almost cylindrical, without evident lateral edges; widening backwards, hind margin just exceeding mesonotum. Dorsal disc rounded in the prozona, metazona flat, slightly depressed in the middle, with wide median carina. Paranota stretch widely ventrally (in dry prepared specimens somewhat narrower), hind margin slightly concave (humeral excision indistinct). Prosternum without spines. Tegmina wide, in natural position overlapping in both sexes, always exceeding 2 nd abdominal tergite (usually longer), apex broadly rounded. Hind wings exist but rudimentary. Fore tibiae with 3 outer and 6 inner spines. Postfemora robust, the evenly thin apical part is shorter than one third of the total length (i. e. the dorsal and ventral edges of the femur are not parallel in the apical third of its length); ratio length of hind femur: pronotum: 2,5 – 3,2. Posttibiae with four apical spurs, two outer ones much longer than inner ones. Plantulae shorter than basal segment of hind tarsi. The colour is quite uniform (as presented in the description of the holotype and the allotype), except of the vertex and the dorsal disc of pronotum which can vary from light cream to brown or grey but never green; usually unicolored but sometimes with a dark longitudinal stripe. Male. Tegmina at the apical part flat or only slightly convex, rather fitting to the abdomen (ca. 45 ˚). The distal part of the longitudinal veins (Sc, R, M) straight, the tips of the tegmina far from each other. The distal section of the tegmina (from the end of the mirror to the apex) distinctly longer than the proximal section. Stridulatory file consist of 78 – 104 pegs. The last 3 – 4 abdominal tergites with dense, long hairs in the median part; the cuticle here softer, leathery; this hairy and leathery medial part of tergites usually not separated in colour from the adjacent area. Anal tergite wide, deeply depressed, with two crescent lobes regularly bending to the middle (to each other), often forming a round excision between them, in dry prepared specimens the lobes usually overlap or cross eachother. The subgenital plate long, with the widest part in the basal third, with a short triangular emargination between styli. Cerci long, cylindrical and almost uniform in thickness on both the thick basal part and the thin apical part; the apical part bending slightly outwards and has an individual variability in length and width. The inner tooth strong; located nearly in the middle of the cercus or somewhat distal from it (depending on the length of the apical part of the cercus); the base of the tooth wide (as wide or almost as wide as its length). Axis of the innter tooth forms a right or obtuse angle with the axis of the apical part of the cercus. Titillator with spines with both the apical and basal arm; basal arm long (ratio length of apical and basal arm below 0.6); apical arm robust, moderately long, downvards curving and strongly spinulose at the dorsal and lateral side; ends in a pointed apex curving outward and slightly downward. Female. Tip of the tegmina flat or slightly convex. Cubital veins usually brown, more or less parallel, CuPb often closer to CuA than the inner margin of the tegmen. Anal tergite with two triangular terminal lobes, the tips of which extend backwards (less visible in dry specimens). Subgenital plate smooth, wide rectangular, without deep emargination, at most slightly concave at hind margin, V-shaped in caudal view (therefore appears to be excised in caudoventral view). Sternites without any modifications. Ovipositor more than twice as long as pronotum, slightly and evenly upcurved, less compressed laterally, the ventral margin finely serrate apically; dark coloured at the upper margin.	en	Puskás, Gellért, Lemonnier-Darcemont, Michèle, Willemse, Luc, Chobanov, Dragan, Heller, Klaus-Gerhard, Halimi, Eltjon, Darcemont, Christian, Kotitsa, Nefeli, Szövényi, Gergely (2026): Montana tomorri and Montana dani (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae), two new species of bush-crickets from the mountains of south Albania. Zootaxa 5828 (2): 225-255, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5828.2.3, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5828.2.3
03BE87899150FFE9FF4BFBEA6CD631FF.taxon	biology_ecology	Bioacoustics: The calling song (Fig. 5) consists of repeated series of syllables (echemes) with a duration of 1 – 2 seconds (839 – 2449 ms). These echemes consist of 19 – 54 syllables, with a SRR of 20 – 28 Hz (25 – 28 ºC). However, there is some variability in the song. In some specimens occasionally a few additional syllables follow directly behind an echeme after a short break (Fig. 5 K – L). Clearly separated from the echemes also isolated (or pairs of) microsyllables can be observed in many specimens, with 0 to 28 echemes between these short elements (Fig. 5 G – H). As an individual variation, one animal showed a few microsyllable-like elements near the beginning of an echeme. The frequency spectrum shows a broad peak in the near-ultrasound: peak 21 – 29 kHz; 7 specimens (Fig. 6). Measurements: Measurements performed on holotype and paratypes are provided in Table 8.	en	Puskás, Gellért, Lemonnier-Darcemont, Michèle, Willemse, Luc, Chobanov, Dragan, Heller, Klaus-Gerhard, Halimi, Eltjon, Darcemont, Christian, Kotitsa, Nefeli, Szövényi, Gergely (2026): Montana tomorri and Montana dani (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae), two new species of bush-crickets from the mountains of south Albania. Zootaxa 5828 (2): 225-255, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5828.2.3, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5828.2.3
03BE87899150FFE9FF4BFBEA6CD631FF.taxon	diagnosis	Differential diagnosis: Montana dani belongs to the short-winged morpho-type in the genus (Table 7). Among short-winged taxa, M. dani can be differentiated by the following combination of characters: pronotal disc flat or slightly convex, lateral edges rounded, tegmina about the length of pronotum, stocky wide hind femora, semicircular lobes of the male 10 th tergite with a very narrow incision between them, cerci with a large long tooth positioned between the middle and the proximal 1 / 3 of cercus, square female subgenital plate without clear incision, pronotum length in the range 5.1 – 7.0 mm. The most similar taxon seems to be M. heinrichi (Ramme), known from northern Iran (Elburs), though this species has narrower lobes and wider incision of the male 10 th abdominal tergum and larger size (pronotum 8.2 – 9.7 mm). Cercus shape resembles M. taurica but 10 th tergum in the latter species has longer lobes and wide deep incision between them. From M. tomorri this species differs mostly by the shape of male tegmina, cerci and titillator (see Table 9 and the key to brachypterous species of genus Montana in the Balkans below).	en	Puskás, Gellért, Lemonnier-Darcemont, Michèle, Willemse, Luc, Chobanov, Dragan, Heller, Klaus-Gerhard, Halimi, Eltjon, Darcemont, Christian, Kotitsa, Nefeli, Szövényi, Gergely (2026): Montana tomorri and Montana dani (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae), two new species of bush-crickets from the mountains of south Albania. Zootaxa 5828 (2): 225-255, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5828.2.3, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5828.2.3
03BE87899150FFE9FF4BFBEA6CD631FF.taxon	distribution	Distribution: Known from a few mountains of the Albanian Epirus above 1400 m: Griba (2122 m), Trebeshina (1923 m), Lunxhëri (2155 m), Dhëmbel (2050 m) and Nemërçka (2482 m), reaching the Greek border of the latter chain.	en	Puskás, Gellért, Lemonnier-Darcemont, Michèle, Willemse, Luc, Chobanov, Dragan, Heller, Klaus-Gerhard, Halimi, Eltjon, Darcemont, Christian, Kotitsa, Nefeli, Szövényi, Gergely (2026): Montana tomorri and Montana dani (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae), two new species of bush-crickets from the mountains of south Albania. Zootaxa 5828 (2): 225-255, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5828.2.3, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5828.2.3
03BE87899150FFE9FF4BFBEA6CD631FF.taxon	biology_ecology	Habitat: Grasslands with some bushes such as grassland more or less dense with Juniperus sp., Astragalus sp., scratched grassland with Astragalus sp., grassland with Arctostaphylos uva-ursi and Eryngium sp., stony grassland with Arctostaphylos uva-ursi and Astragalus sp., stony pastured grassland with Astragalus sp. and Juniperus sp.	en	Puskás, Gellért, Lemonnier-Darcemont, Michèle, Willemse, Luc, Chobanov, Dragan, Heller, Klaus-Gerhard, Halimi, Eltjon, Darcemont, Christian, Kotitsa, Nefeli, Szövényi, Gergely (2026): Montana tomorri and Montana dani (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae), two new species of bush-crickets from the mountains of south Albania. Zootaxa 5828 (2): 225-255, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5828.2.3, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5828.2.3
03BE87899150FFE9FF4BFBEA6CD631FF.taxon	etymology	Etymology: Dedicated to the memory of Dániel Pifkó (1976 – 2023), Hungarian botanist, science historian and Balkan researcher. By this species name, Dani is symbolically still in the Albanian mountains he loved so much. Used as a noun in apposition, gender masculine.	en	Puskás, Gellért, Lemonnier-Darcemont, Michèle, Willemse, Luc, Chobanov, Dragan, Heller, Klaus-Gerhard, Halimi, Eltjon, Darcemont, Christian, Kotitsa, Nefeli, Szövényi, Gergely (2026): Montana tomorri and Montana dani (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae), two new species of bush-crickets from the mountains of south Albania. Zootaxa 5828 (2): 225-255, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5828.2.3, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5828.2.3
03BE8789915AFFE6FF4BFCF66BFF3256.taxon	discussion	Note: Between M. tomorri and M. dani, the analysis of males provides a better reliability of identification compared to the females due to fewer distinctive characters of the latter.	en	Puskás, Gellért, Lemonnier-Darcemont, Michèle, Willemse, Luc, Chobanov, Dragan, Heller, Klaus-Gerhard, Halimi, Eltjon, Darcemont, Christian, Kotitsa, Nefeli, Szövényi, Gergely (2026): Montana tomorri and Montana dani (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae), two new species of bush-crickets from the mountains of south Albania. Zootaxa 5828 (2): 225-255, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5828.2.3, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5828.2.3
