A review of the Canarian Sphingonotini with description of a new species from Fuerteventura (Orthoptera : Acrididae : Oedipodinae)

Abstract

A review of the Canarian Sphingonotini with description of a new species from Fuerteventura (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Oedipodinae). Zoological Studies 47(4): 495-506. 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 Wemerella, 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.