Poecilimon syriacus Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1891

Ünal, Mustafa, 2025, Taxonomic notes on Phaneropterinae and Tettigoniinae (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) from the Palaearctic Region, Zootaxa 5687 (1), pp. 1-77 : 19

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5687.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17017361
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scientific name	Poecilimon syriacus Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1891
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Poecilimon syriacus Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1891 View in CoL

Material examined. Syria: Gebellie, 6 males, 6 females (leg. Leuthner); Ladakia , 1 male, 1 female (leg. Leuthner) ; Lebanon: Tripolis , 3 males (leg. Leuthner) ; Israel: Jerusalem, 1 male (lectotype), 2 females (leg. Leuthner) ; Turkey: Söört b. Bitlis [Siirt Province], 7 males, 2 females (leg. Sikora) ( NMW) ; Syria: Syrien, 1 male, 1 female (leg. Leuthner) ( MfN) .

Remarks. Brunner (1891: 29), describing this species, gave the type localities as “ Syria (Beirut, Hierosolyma), Bitlis in Asia minore”. In the collection of Brunner (NMW), there is no specimen labelled as “Beirut” and “Hierosolyma”. However, some specimens from Tripoli (a city, N of Beirut) and Jerusalem are available. The other “type locality” is “Söört b. Bitlis ” in the label. Söört [Siirt] is a Province of Turkey in the present day. Harz (1969: 146) published the type locality as Beirut. However, this is not a valid lectotype designation. Heller et al. (2008) designated the male from Jerusalem [Hierosolyma] as the lectotype. Interestingly, this species was not listed in the Palestinian and Israeli fauna ( Bodenheimer 1935; Ayal et al. 1999).