Poecilimon (Poecilimon) datca Uluar, Chobanov & Çıplak, 2025, stat. nov.

3.11Poecilimon(Poecilimon)datcahttps://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/otus/847290/overview Sevgili, Sirin, Heller & Lemonnier-Darcemont, 2018 stat. nov. Poecilimon (Poecilimon) zonatus datca Sevgili et al. 2018: 31. Remarks. Sevgili et al. (2018) described specimens from Marmaris, Datça Peninsula (population 17 in Table 1) as a new subspecies P. zonatus datca. Mitochondrial sequences from this population constitute a sister group with the clade consisting of sequences from Bakırlıdağ (population 9 in Table 1) and Uzunkarıştepe (population 8 in Table 1), then this clade occurs as a sister clade with P. ciplaki and these two later with P. boncukdagensis. Each of Datça, Bakırlıdağ and Uzunkarıştepe population was suggested as distinct species by bPTP or all as a single species by ASAP and GMYC. The population 7 occurs in lowlands of Datça Peninsula while population 8 and 9 in highland habitats of Beydaglari Mts. with a distinct allopatry separated by the range of P. ciplak i and P. boncukdagensis in between. Distinctiveness of these two units was also supported by their occurrence as two separate clusters in COI - DAPC. Considering genetic and phenotypic data, P. zonatus datca should be excluded from P. zonatus and as all these three populations occur as distinct species by ASAP and GMYC, we elevated it to species level as P. datca Sevgili, Sirin, Heller & Lemonnier-Darcemont, 2018 stat. nov. However, internal diversity of this clade needs to be described further especially because of allopatric distribution and partial genetic and phenotypic difference. Additionally, it seems that the lowland and highland populations split from each other around 0.5 myr ago. Thus we prefer to arrange taxonomy according to the case and proposed the lowland and highland populations as two separate subspecies, as P. datca datca Sevgili, Sirin, Heller & Lemonnier-Darcemont (see population 7 in Table 1) and P. datca montana Uluar, Chobanov & Çıplak subsp. nov. (see population 8, 9 in Table 1). For song diagnostic characters from its genetic relative see under P. ciplaki. Along with the discrete range (Fig. 1) both subspecies can be distinguished by the shape of male cercus (compare I and J in Fig. 5) and lineage specific unique / non-shared mutations, detected in concatenated matrix of COI + ND 2 + VAL by applying a PAUP analysis (File S 1): the position 549 (T → C), 1757 (C → G), 2172 (A → G) are unique to the species node of P. datca; those at position 221 (T → G), 225 (C → A), 239 (C → T), 242 (C → A), 246 (T → G), 250 (G → A), 262 (T → C), 273 (A → G), 283 (A → T), 290 (C → A), 292 (C → T), 297 (T → C), 299 (T → A), 313 (A → T), 316 (C → T), 330 (A → G), 332 (C → T), 333 (T → C), 437 (C → A), 798 (A → G), 924 (A → G), 1153 (T → G), 1157 (T → C) and 1236 (G → A) are unique to P. datca datca and those at 1289 (C → T), 1476 (A → T), 1659 (A → G), 2079 (A → G), 2109 (G → A) and 2164 (A → T) to P. datca montana subsp. nov. Material examined. See populations 7, 8, and 9 in Table 1. TURKEY, Antalya Elmalı-Bozöyük, Uzunkarıştepe, 36.71667N, 30.11667E, 1691 m, 15.V.2011, 11 males, 5 females (leg. S. Kaya, Z. Boztepe and Ö. Pekter) (MEVBIL); TURKEY, Antalya, Elmalı-Çamkuyusu, Bakırlıdağ, 36.59112N, 30.00234E, 1600 m, 27.VI.1997, 3 males, 3 females (leg. B. Çıplak) (MEVBIL). Other records. Type material of P. zonatus datca, 3 males (including holotype), 5 females, TURKEY: Muğla, Marmaris, road to Datça, 36°47'.46"N, 28°03'.57"E, ~ 44 m, 14.05.2016, (leg. H. Sevgili) (in alcohol, ODUZOOL). Sequences of samples from “ Muğla-Fethiye-Tuzlabeli, 1650 m, 29.VII.1997, 1 male, 4 females, (leg. B. Çıplak) (MEVBIL) ” identified as paratypes of P. ciplaki ciplaki in Kaya (2018) are within the P. denizliensis clade.