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Pterolepis gessardi Bonnet 1886

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Pterolepis gessardi Bonnet, 1886

Pterolepis gessardi Bonnet, 1886: 245.

Type locality: Tunisia, El Kef.

Distribution: North Africa (Tunisia, Algeria) (Galvagni 1985).

Biogeographic zones: Shoreline, Tellian Atlas, Saharian Atlas.

Bioclimatic zones: Subhumid, arid, semiarid, saharian.

Records in Algeria: Chabet el Ameur [6°38'N 3°41'E]; Oran [35°40'N 0°39'W] (Finot 1893, as P. indigena Finot, 1893). Boghari [35°53'N 2°45'E]; Kouba, near Algiers [36°43'N 3°05'E]; Tablat [36°24'N 3°18'E]; Aurès mountain [33°02'N 6°03'E] (Uvarov 1942). Tichi [36°40'N 5°10'E], 0-100 m; Tipasa [36°34'N 2°27'E], 0-100 m; Grande Kabylie, Akfadou forest [36°41'N 4°34'E], 1100-1300 m; Tarnier [sic] (Galvagni 1985).

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 30, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2432.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/294257

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References

  • Bonnet, E. (1886) De quibus Orthopteris tunetanis notulas. Le Naturaliste, 1 ere serie, 8 eme annee 3 (31), 245 - 247.
  • Galvagni, A. (1985) Il genere Pterolepis Rambur, 1938, nelle sue specie dell'Africa minore e della Sicilia. Atti dell'Accademia Roveretana degli Agiati, 234 [1984], ser. VI, v. 24 (B), 135 - 158.
  • Finot, A. (1893) Descriptions abregees de huit especes nouvelles d'Orthopteres habitant l'Algerie et la Tunisie. Bulletin de la Societe entomologique de France, 62, 250 - 253.
  • Uvarov, B. P. (1942 [1941]) New and less known southern palaeartic Orthoptera. Transactions of the American Entomolgy Society, 67, 303 - 357, pls. 25 - 29.