Published December 15, 2020 | Version v1
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Leptopternis rothschildi Bolivar 1913

  • 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

Leptopternis rothschildi Bolívar, 1913 **

(Fig. 39)

Leptopternis rothschildi Bolívar, 1913: 611.

TYPE SPECIMEN. — Algeria • ♂; holotype; Oued Nsa; MNCN.

DISTRIBUTION. — Algeria (Korsakoff 1958).

DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — None.

MATERIAL EXAMINED.— Tunisia • 1 ♂; Tozeur, Gouifla; 26.VII.2017; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4686 • 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF 4687.

NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Gafsa, Douwara; Tozeur, Gouifla.

HABITAT. — This species lives in desertic sands and desertic steppe (H. Tlili, pers. obs.).

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 624, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a31, http://zenodo.org/record/4382361

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References

  • BOLIVAR I. 1913. - Ernst Hartert's expedition to the Central Western Sahara. XVII. Orthopteres. Novitates Zoologicae 20: 603 - 615.
  • KORSAKOFF M. N. 1958. - Notes sur quelques insectes de Beni- Ounif. Eos, Revista espanola de Entomologia 34: 135 - 148.