Aeropedellus Hebard, 1935

Storozhenko, S. Yu. & Benediktov, A. A., 2020, AN ANNOTATED CHECK-LIST OF ORTHOPTERA OF TUVA AND ADJACENT REGIONS. PART 3. SUBRODER CAELIFERA (ACRIDIDAE: GOMPHOCERINAE: GOMPHOCERINI; LOCUSTINAE), Far Eastern Entomologist 402, pp. 1-36 : 4

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Aeropedellus Hebard, 1935
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Genus Aeropedellus Hebard, 1935 View in CoL

3(67). Aeropedellus variegatus (Fischer de Waldheim, 1846)

Gomphocerus variegatus: Miram, 1907: 7 View in CoL .

Dasyhippus variegatus: Berezhkov, 1951: 10 .

Aeropedellus variegatus: Ivanova, 1967: 132 View in CoL ; Sergeev, 1986: 206; Sergeev et al., 1995: 96, 98;

Benediktov, 1997: 117; Bukhvalova & Vedenina, 1998: 119.

Aeropedellus variegatus variegatus: Berezhkov, 1956: 105 View in CoL ; Tishechkin & Bukhvalova, 2009: 27.

MATERIAL. Tuva: Chaa-Khol River , 51°34′N, 92°23′E, 570–600 m, dry steppes, 14–18.VII GoogleMaps

1962, 2 ♀ ( IS); Ulug-Khem Intermountain Basin , 25 km SW Kyzyl City, Ulug River, 51°35′N, 94°09′E GoogleMaps ,

650–700 m, piedmont plain, dry steppe, 6.VII 1978, 1 ♀ ( MS); Ulug-Khem Intermountain Basin, 25 km

SW Kyzyl City, Ulug River, 51°34ʹN, 94°10ʹE, 800–900 m, southern slope and piedmont plain, semideserts with Nanophyton grubovi , 22.VII 2003, 2 ♀ ( MS); W Tannu-Ola Mts., 5 km N Khanda-gajty settlement, 50°48ʹN, 92°05ʹE, 1300–1350 m, piedmont plain, stony steppes with Caragana , 16.VIII

1985, 3 ♀ ( MS); W Tannu-Ola Mts. , 5 km N Khandagajty settlement, 50°47ʹN, 92°02ʹE, 1225 m ,

piedmont plain, stony steppes with Caragana , 18.VIII 1985, 1 ♀ ( MS); W Tannu-Ola Mts. , 9 km N

Khandagajty settlement, 50°52ʹN, 92°04ʹE, 2060 m, alpine steppe and meadow, 19.VIII 1985, 2 ♂, 2 ♀

( MS); W Tannu-Ola Mts. , 9 km N Khandagajty settlement, 50°51ʹN, 92°04ʹE, 1700–1900 m, mountain steppes, 19.VIII 1985, 2 ♂, 7 ♀ ( MS) ; W Tannu-Ola Mts. , NW Khandagajty settlement, near Solchur settlement, 50°46ʹN, 92°01ʹE, 1150–1200 m, agricultural fields including abandoned and plots along canal and roads, 21.VIII 1978, 4 ♂, 2 ♀ ( MS) ; W Tannu-Ola Mts. , 5 km N Khandagajty settlement ,

50°47ʹN, 92°03ʹE, 1193 m, piedmont plain, lower terrace of stream, meadow, 21.VIII 1985, 2 ♀ ( MS) ;

W Tannu-Ola Mts. , 4 km E Khandagajty settlement, 50°45ʹN, 92°09ʹE, 1150–1200 m, southern slope and piedmont plain, stony semi-desert with Nanophyton grubovii , 24.VIII 1985, 2 ♂ ( MS); W Tannu-Ola

Mts., near Khandagajty settlement, 50°43′N, 92°04′E, 1170–1200 m, piedmont plain, desert with Nanophyton grubovii , 24.VIII 1985, 5 ♂, 1 ♀ ( MS); W Tannu-Ola Mts. , near Khandagajty settlement, 50°43′N ,

92°03′E, 1200–1250 m, piedmont plain and northern slope, semi-desert with Caragana bushes, 24.VIII

1985, 4 ♂, 3 ♀ ( MS); E Tannu-Ola Mts. , Shuurmak River, 5 km N Shuurmak settlement, 50°41ʹN ,

95°19ʹE, 1173 m, local southern slope and piedmont plain, steppe, 10.VII 1978, 8 ♂, 26 ♀ ( MS); E

Tannu-Ola Mts. , Shuurmak River, 5 km N Shuurmak settlement, 50°42ʹN, 95°20ʹE, 1106 m, southern slope, mountain steppe, 11.VII 1978, 1 ♂ ( MS); Uvs-Nuur Intermountain Basin, Dus-Khol, 50°22ʹN ,

94°52ʹE, 994–995 m, semi-desert with Nanophyton grubovii , 24–26.VII 1962, 1 ♀ ( IS); Uvs-Nuur

Intermountain Basin , 10 km S Erzin settlement, Tsuger-Els, 50°10ʹN, 95°11ʹE, 1154 m, sandy semidesert, 23.VII 1978, 1 ♂, 1 ♀ ( MS); Uvs-Nuur Intermountain Basin, E Shara-Nuur, Yamalyg farwell rocks, 50°14ʹN, 94°45ʹE, 1150 m, piedmont plain, dry steppe, 6.VII 2017, some specimens observed

( MS); 7 km SW Erzin settlement, Tes River , 50°12ʹN, 95°08ʹE, 13.VII 2014, 2 ♀ ( SS); 25 km SSW

Erzin settlement, Tore Lake, 50°02ʹN, 95°03ʹE, 1150 m, sands, grasses and Caragana , 11–12.VII 2014,

2 ♂, 3 ♀ ( SS); 25 km SW Erzin settlement, Tes River , 50°05ʹN, 95°21ʹE, 14–15.VII 2014 , 3 ♀ ( SS) ;

Tore Lake , 50°06ʹN, 95°06ʹE, 1100 m, steppe, steppe, 12.VII 2014, 6 ♀ ( SS); 25 km NEE Erzin settlement, Belyj Medved Mt., 50°21ʹN, 95°27ʹE, steppe, 16.VII 2014, 3 ♀ ( SS) .

REMARKS. Almost all specimens may be determined as Ae. variegatus variegatus , but some individuals from the eastern part of the East Tannu-Ola Mts. look like Ae. variegatus minutus Mistshenko. Actually the genus should be revised in the nearest future.

DISTRIBUTION. Tuva: KHE, UKH, WTO, ETO, UVS, SAN. – N Caucasus, NE European Russia, Siberia; N Europe, mountains of S Europe, E Kazakhstan, Mongolia.

ECOLOGY. In Tuva, the species occurs in the different steppes, from the alpine ones to the dry steppes on piedmont plains and to the semi-deserts.

IS

University of Molise

MS

Herbarium Messanaensis, Università di Messina

SS

Università di Sassari

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Orthoptera

Family

Acrididae

Loc

Aeropedellus Hebard, 1935

Storozhenko, S. Yu. & Benediktov, A. A. 2020
2020
Loc

Aeropedellus variegatus

: Ivanova 1967: 132
1967
Loc

Aeropedellus variegatus variegatus:

Berezhkov 1956: 105
1956
Loc

Dasyhippus variegatus:

Berezhkov 1951: 10
1951
Loc

Gomphocerus variegatus:

Miram 1907: 7
1907
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