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Oedaleus decorus subsp. decorus decorus (Germar 1825

  • 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

Oedaleus decorus decorus (Germar, 1825)

(Fig. 41)

Acrydium decorum Germar, 1826: pl. 17.

Oedaleus nigrofasciatus (De Geer, 1773) – Vosseler 1902a: 359 (misidentification).

Oedaleus decorus – Uvarov 1923b: 69. — Chopard 1943: 295.

Oedaleus decorus decorus – Ritchie 1981: 124.

TYPE SPECIMEN. — Russia • ♂; neotype (Ritchie 1981); Southern Russia, Podolia; NHM.

DISTRIBUTION. — Species widespread throughout Africa and the Mediterranean basin (Ritchie 1981); Southern Europe and further eastwards into Asia (Willemse et al. 2018).

DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Gafsa (Vosseler 1902a).

MATERIAL EXAMINED.— Tunisia • 1♂; Gafsa, Douwara; 20.VII.2016; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4689 • 1 ♀; Tabarka; 5.VII.1889; MNHN-EO-CAELIF2596.

Algeria • 1 ♀; Oran, 5.VII.1979; MNHN-EO-CAELIF9115.

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

HABITAT. — Dry and open habitats (Usmani 2008).

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

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References

  • GERMAR E. F. 1826. - Fauna Insectorum Europae. 15 pl. 10.
  • VOSSELER J. 1902 a. - Beitrage zur Faunistik und Biologie der Orthopteren Algeriens und Tunesiens. Zoologische Jahrbucher. Abteilung fur Systematik, Geographie Und Biologie Der Tiere 16: 337 - 404.
  • UVAROV B. P. 1923 b. - Records and descriptions of Orthoptera from North-West Africa. Novitates zoologicae 30: 59 - 78. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 28982
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  • RITCHIE J. 1981. - A taxonomic revision of the genus Oedaleus Fieber (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology series 40 (3): 83 - 183. https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 2247032
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