Pezodrymadusa affinis ( I.Bolívar, 1899 ), I.Bolivar, 1899

Ünal, Mustafa, 2018, Tettigoniinae (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) from Turkey with key to genera and descriptions of six new species, Zootaxa 4432 (1), pp. 1-66 : 12

Pezodrymadusa affinis ( I.Bolívar, 1899)

Pezodrymadusa striolata ziyaretensis Koçak & Kemal, 2010 syn. nov.

Material examined. TURKEY: [Kahramanmaraş], Bimbogha-Dagh, 1 female (leg. M. Escalera) (holotype) ( MNCN); Antitaurus , Maras [Kahramanmaraş], Göksun , Binboza [ Binboğa ] dag, 1500 m, in steppe, 14.7.1952, 4 females; Maras, Göksun, Below Yalak and foot of Binboga dag, 1500 m, in steppe, 14.7.1952, 1 female; Maras, Çardak, Berit Dag, 1800–2000 m, 25.7.1952, 1 male, 2 females (all leg. P.H. Davis) ( NHMUK) ; Sivas, Gürün, Ziyaret Geçidi , 1900–1930 m, 15.7.2008, 4 males, 1900 m, 9.9.2013, 2 females, in alcohol, 1900–2000 m, 13.9.2016, 1 female, 1 female nymph, plus 1 female in alcohol (leg. M. Ünal) (AİBÜEM).

Remarks. This species was described after a single female which must be the holotype ( I.Bolívar, 1899: 601). Koçak & Kemal (2010) described a new taxon as a subspecies of P. striolata after a single female from Sivas: Ziyaret Geçidi. It is strongly similar to the females studied here. I identified this population as P. affinis and described the male sex ( Ünal 2006). Koçak & Kemal (2010) did not compare P. striolata ziyaretensis with the other taxa in this species rich genus and separating it from the nominotypical subspecies used the shorter tegmina and the coloration. These are not confident characters especially for the female sex of this genus and are variable even in the same habitat. For instance, in the original description of P. striolata Ramme, 1951 the length of female tegmina was given in a broad range (as 3.7–7 mm) in one population. The specimens listed here and previously studied ones ( Ünal 2006: 162) collected from the type locality of P. striolata ziyaretensis have variable length of female tegmina and coloration as well. I confirm my previous identification and consider the synonymy of Pezodrymadusa striolata ziyaretensis Koçak et Kemal, 2010 with this species.