Poster presentation
Armoured crickets (Orthoptera: Tetigonidae, Bradyporinae) in the Natural History Museum Collections of Sibiu (Romania)
Alexandru Ioan TATU1, Ioan TĂUŞAN1,2
1“Babeş-Bolyai” University of Cluj-Napoca, Faculty of Biology and Geology, Department of Taxonomy and Ecology, 5-7 Clinicilor Street, 400006, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, e-mails: [email protected]; [email protected] 2Brukenthal National Museum, Natural History Museum, 1 Cetăţii Street, 550160, Sibiu, Romania, e-mail: [email protected]
Key words: armoured crickets, museum collections.
The present paper consists of data on some armoured crickets (Bradyporinae) from the collections of the Natural History Museum from Sibiu. The preserved material is part of several collections: “Dr. Arnold Müller”, “Rolf Weyrauch”, “Dr. Eugen Worell” and “Dr. Eckbert Schneider”. Vasiliu & Agapi (1958) published valuable data from the “Arnold Müller” collection, more then 50 years ago. No further collection research has been undertaken since. The identified species are: Bradyporus dasypus (Illiger, 1800), Callimenus macrogaster longicollis (Fieber, 1853) and Ephippiger ephippiger (Fiebig, 1784), which are present in the Romanian fauna (Iorgu et al., 2008). Additional foreign species such as Callimenus oniscus Burmeister, 1838, Ephippiger ephippiger cunii Bolívar, 1877, E. provincialis (Yersin, 1854), E. discoidalis Fieber, 1853, Uromenus laticollis (Lucas, 1849), U. rugosicollis (Serville, 1839), U. brunnerii (Bolivar, 1877) and U. stalii (Bolivar, 1877) are also recorded in the museum collections. Most of these specimens were collected from Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Serbia, Spain, Greece and Algeria; however, others were obtained through exchanges with other collectors or museums. Nomenclature and systematical order are according to Orthoptera species file (http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org), online version at 01.10.2011 (Eades & Otte, 2011). The distribution map of the collecting sites and biology data for some of the recorded species are given.
References: IORGU, I. Ş., E. PISICĂ, L. PĂIŞ, G. LUPU, C. IUŞAN, 2008 - Checklist of Romanian Orthoptera (Insecta) and their distribution by eco-regions. Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle “Grigore Antipa”, 51: 119-135. EADES, D. C., D. OTTE, 2011 - Orthoptera Species File Online. Version 2.0/4.0. [01.10.2011]
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