New and little known species of the genus Parapholidoptera Maran (Insecta, Orthoptera) Bruno Massa * ,1 , Filippo M. Buzzetti 2 and Paolo Fontana 3 1 Universit di Palermo, Dipartimento SENFIMIZO, Entomologia, Acarologia, Zoologia, Viale delle Scienze, 90128 Palermo, Italy 2 Via Riotorto 13/1, 36071 Arzignano (VI), Italy 3 Universit di Padova, DAAPV– Entomologia, AGRIPOLIS Viale dell’Universit 16, 35020 Legnaro (PD), Italy Introduction In 2003 we carried out two weeks of research in Geor- gia, in the following years we received a lot of Arme- nian material from our colleague Marcus Kalashian. This allowed us to put together a large collection and to have a better idea of the biological diversity of these countries. We present here the results regarding the spe- cies belonging to the genus Parapholidoptera, adding also an interesting record of an old specimen from Le- banon, preserved in the Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali of Turin. The genus Parapholidoptera Maran, 1953 was recently revised by ïiplak (2000) who lists seventeen species. Later, two further species were de- scribed by Katbeh Bader & Massa (2001) and by Ûnal (2006), respectively. To date the genus holds nineteen species plus the two here described and ranges from the Eastern Mediterranean basin to Caucasus. Even if the genus is closely related to Apholidoptera Maran and Uvarovistia Maran, originally described by Ramme (1951) (who did not establish a type species), it is char- acterised in having the metazona extended, male anal tergite with two processes, light-coloured male anal ter- gite, hind femur with a black longitudinal stripe on out- er surface and females with a straight ovipositor. All the species here treated show pronotum rimmed on cau- dolateral margins, with metazona extended posteriorly (ïiplak 2000). Material and methods For each species, the number of specimens examined is given within brackets as (male/female/juv). The specimens have been compared with the series in the collec- tion of the Museum fçr Naturkunde of Berlin, including the types established by Ramme. The song of some singing males was recorded with a digital recor- der Sony DAT TCD-D100, with a clamped condenser microphone. This system has a frequency response of 100 to 15,000 Hz. The mi- crophone was placed approximately 25 cm from the cage, perpendi- cular to the plane of one side. The microphone was mostly perpendi- cular to insect’s body. Sampled fragments of more than 1 min. (44.1 kHz, 16 bit) from the recordings were analyzed with Cool Edit Pro 2.0 to obtain oscillograms. Recording temperature was 24 – 26  C. Song terminology follows Ragge & Reynolds (1998): Calling song (the song produced by an isolated male), Syllable (the sound produced by one complete opening and closing movement of the tegmina), Hemisyllable (the sound produced by one unidirectional movement, opening or closing, of the tegmina), Echeme (a first-order assemblage of syllables). Type depositories and collections examined. Museo Civico di Storia Naturale “G. Doria”, Genoa (MCSNG); Museo Regionale Scienze Naturali, Turin (MRSNT); Museum fçr Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMHB); # 2009 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim Received 31 October 2008 Accepted 27 February 2009 Published 11 November 2009 Key Words Taxonomy Caucasus Lebanon Abstract Material of species of the genus Parapholidoptera Maran is presented. New records of P. noxia (Ramme) are reported from Georgia, P. georgiae sp. n. from Georgia and P. ka- lashiani sp. n. from Armenia are described. P. syriaca is newly reported from Lebanon. Dtsch. Entomol. Z. 56 (2) 2009, 243 – 249 / DOI 10.1002/mmnd.200900021 * Corresponding author, e-mail: zoolappl@unipa.it