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Thalpomena algeriana subsp. algeriana algeriana (Lucas 1849

  • 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

Thalpomena algeriana algeriana (Lucas, 1849)

(Fig. 56)

Oedipoda algeriana Lucas, 1849b: 34.

Thalpomena algeriana – Saussure 1884: 184.

Thalpomena algeriana algeriana – Dirsh 1949a: 366. — Massa 1999: 78.

TYPE SPECIMEN. — Algeria • ♀; holotype; Kouba; MNHN.

DISTRIBUTION. — Algeria (Moussi et al. 2018); Tunisia (Massa 1999).

DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. Meknassy (Chopard 1943); Feriana (Massa 1999).

MATERIAL EXAMINED. Algeria • 1 ♀; holotype; Kouba; H. Lucas; MNHN-EO-CAELIF538.

Tunisia • 1 ♀; Beja, Bechouk; 12.II.2017; W. Bedoui; MNHN-EO-CAELIF 4712 • 1 ♂; Hammam Lif; 1901; J. de Gaulle; MNHN-EO-CAELIF3777 • 1 ♂; Tunis; 1901; J. de Gaulle; MNHN-EO-CAELIF3778 • 1♀; Jendouba, Ain Draham; 1889; S. Seurat; MNHN-EO-CAELIF3779.

Algeria • 1 ♀; Oran; 14.II.1880; MNHN-EO-CAELIF9146.

NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — None.

HABITAT. — Rocky, dry and sunny places (Chopard 1943).

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

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References

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