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Steropleurus lucasi

Description

Steropleurus lucasi (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1882)

Ephippigera (Steropleurus) lucasi Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1882: 372, 386. Type locality: Algeria: Nemours, Oran.

Distribution: North Africa (Algeria, Morocco) (Chopard 1943).

Biogeographic zones: Shoreline, Tellian Atlas, High Plateaux.

Bioclimatic zones: Subhumid, arid, semiarid.

Records in Algeria: Oran [35°40'N 0°39'W]; Nemours [35°6'N 1°51'W] (Brunner von Wattenwyl 1882). Djebel Tessala [35°17'N 0°47'W]; Perrégaux [Mascara] [35°35'N 0°4'E]; Hammam Bou Hadjar [35°22'N 0°58'W] (Krauss and Vosseler 1896). Saïda [34°49'N 0°9'E]; Oran [35°40'N 0°39'W] (Werner 1914). Médéa [36°16'N 2°45'E] (Lucas, in Chopard, 1943).

Notes

Published as part of SAHNOUN, AOUAOUCHE MOHAMED, DOUMANDJI, SALAH EDDINE & DESUTTER-GRANDCOLAS, LAURE, 2010, A check-list of Ensifera from Algeria (Insecta: Orthoptera), pp. 1-44 in Zootaxa 2432 (1) on page 23, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2432.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/294257

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Biodiversity

Family
Tettigoniidae
Genus
Steropleurus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Orthoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Species
lucasi
Taxon rank
species

References

  • Chopard, L. (1943) Les Orthopteroides de l'Afrique du Nord. Larose, Paris, 450 pp.
  • Krauss, H. & Vosseler, J. (1896) Beitrage zur orthopterenfauna Orans (West-Algerien). Zoologische Jahrbucher. Abteilung fur Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Thiere, 9, 515 - 556.
  • Werner, F. (1914) Ergebnisse einer von Prof. F. Werner im Sommer 1910 mit Unterstutzung aus dem Legate Wedl ausgefuhren zoologischen Forschungsreise nach Algerien. Sitzungsberichten der kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien, Mathem. - naturw. Klasse, 123, 363 - 404.