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Acrotylus longipes subsp. longipes longipes (Charpentier 1845

  • 1. Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science of Tunis, University Tunis El Manar, 2092 El Manar Tunis (Tunisia); Laboratory of Bioagressors and Integrated Protection in Agriculture (BPIA), National Institute of Agronomy of Tunisia, University of Cartage, 43 Avenue Charles Nicolle, Tunis 1082 (Tunisia) and Institut de Systématique, Évolution et Biodiversité (ISYEB), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, CNRS UPMC EPHE UA, 57 rue Cuvier, case postale 50, 75231 Paris Cedex 05 (France) haithem. tlili @ fst. utm. tn / haithem. tlili @ mnhn. fr (corresponding author)
  • 2. Department of biological sciences and plants protection, Higher Agronomic Institute of Chott Mariem, Sousse University B. P 47, 4042 Chott Mériem Sousse-Tunis (Tunisia)
  • 3. Institut de Systématique, Évolution et Biodiversité (ISYEB), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, CNRS UPMC EPHE UA, 57 rue Cuvier, case postale 50, 75231 Paris Cedex 05 (France)
  • 4. Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences of Gabes, University of Gabes, Gabes (Tunisia) Laboratory of Livestock and wildlife, Arid Land Institute, Djorf Street, 4119 Medenine (Tunisia)
  • 5. Department of Nature and Life Sciences, University of Biskra, BP 145 RP, 07000 Biskra (Algeria)
  • 6. Laboratory of Bioagressors and Integrated Protection in Agriculture (BPIA), National Institute of Agronomy of Tunisia, University of Cartage, 43 Avenue Charles Nicolle, Tunis 1082 (Tunisia)
  • 7. Institut de Systématique, Évolution et Biodiversité (ISYEB), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, CNRS UPMC EPHE UA, 57 rue Cuvier, case postale 50, 75231 Paris Cedex 05 (France) * Last co-authors with equal rank

Description

Acrotylus longipes longipes (Charpentier, 1845)

(Fig. 30)

Oedipoda longipes Charpentier, 1845: Tab. 54.

Oedipoda (Acrotylus) longipes – Fieber 1853: 126.

Acrotylus longipes – Walker 1871: 74. — Bonnet & Finot 1885: 215. — Finot 1895: 452. — Vosseler 1902a: 360.— Chopard 1943: 301.

Acrotylus longipes longipes – Otte 1995: 320.

TYPE SPECIMEN. — Greece • ♂; neotype; Epidaurus; Harz collection.

DISTRIBUTION. — Southeastern Europe, Africa, and southwestern Asia (Willemse et al. 2018); Croatia (Papković & Jelinčić 2019); Morocco, Algeria, Canary Islands (Moussi et al. 2018); Tunisia, Egypt (Haggag et al. 2008).

DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Tozeur, Bou Hedma, El Guetar (Bonnet & Finot 1885: 215; Finot 1895); Bir Bou Rekbah, Graiba, Gafsa (Vosseler 1902a); Maknassy (Chopard 1943).

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Tunisia • 1 ♀; Kebili, Essagui; 24.V.2017; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4678 • 1♂; Gafsa, Sened; 17.VII.2017; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4677 • 1 ♀; same data; INAT • 1♂, 1♀; Gafsa, Douwara; 27.VI.2016; H. Tlili 1 ♂, 1♀; same data; ISA-CM • 1 ♀; same data; INAT • 1 ♂, 1 ♀; Gafsa, Douwara; 27.VI.2016; H. Tlili 1 ♂, 1 ♀; same data; ISA-CM.

NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Kebili, Essagui; Gafsa, Sened; Gafsa, Douwara.

HABITAT. — Acrotylus longipes longipes almost always coexists in the same habitat with Acrotylus insubricus insubricus.

DNA SEQUENCES. We generated a new sequence for the mitochondrial marker COI (654 bp) (Table 4).

Notes

Published as part of Tlili, Haithem, Abdellaoui, Khemais, Chintauan-Marquier, Ioana C., Chouikha, Manel Ben, Moussi, Abdelhamid, Ammar, Mohamed & Desutter-Grandcolas, Laure, 2020, Checklist and taxonomic updates in grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Caelifera) of central and southwestern Tunisia with new records and a key for species identification, pp. 607-738 in Zoosystema 42 (31) on page 622, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a31, http://zenodo.org/record/4382361

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