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Pyrgomorpha conica

Authors/Creators

  • 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

Pyrgomorpha conica (Olivier, 1791)

(Fig. 75)

Acridium conicum Olivier, 1791: 230.

Truxalis grylloides Latreille, 1804: 148.

Pyrgomorpha grylloides – Fieber 1853: 97. — Bonnet & Finot 1885: 222. — Finot 1895: 490. — Vosseler 1902b: 7.

Pyrgomorpha cognata – Vosseler 1902a: 387 (misidentification rectified by Uvarov 1923b: 74).

Pyrgomorpha conica – Bolívar 1904: 452. — Chopard 1943: 338. — Massa & Rizzo 1998: 279.

TYPE SPECIMEN. — France • ♀; neotype (Mc Kevan 1971); South France; MNHN.

DISTRIBUTION. — Very common around the Mediterranean Sea, in West Africa and the Middle East extending up to India (Willemse et al. 2018).

DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Recorded from the north to the south of the country (Bonnet & Finot 1885; Finot 1895); Tamerza (Massa & Rizzo 1998: 279); Sfax, Graiba, Gabes (Vosseler 1902a).

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Tunisia • 1♂; Gafsa, Moulares, Chanoufia; 27.IV.2016; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4729 • 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4730 • 1 ♂, 1 ♀; same data; INAT • 1 ♂; Gafsa, Douwara; 20.VII.2016; H. Tlili; INAT • 1♀; Sidi Bouzid, Meknassi; 1929; C. Dumont; MNHN-EO-CAELIF950 • 1 ♂; Gafsa, Amra; 26.IV.2019; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7057 • 1♂; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7058 • 1 ♂; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7059 • 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7060 • 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7061 • 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF 7062 • 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7063 • 1♀; Kebili, Essagui; 25.IV.2017; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7064 • 1 ♂, 4 ♀; Gafsa, Metkides; 01.VI.2016; H. Tlili; INAT • 1 ♀; Gafsa, Sened; 01.VI.2016; H. Tlili; INAT.

France • 1 ♀; neotype; Cannes; 15.IV.1878; A. Finot; MNHN-EO-CAELIF 970.

NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Gafsa, Metkides, Gafsa, Sened, Gafsa, Moulares, Gafsa, Douwara; Tozeur, Souani Ali.

HABITAT. — Dry habitats (Usmani 2008).

DNA SEQUENCES. — We generated a new sequence for the mitochondrial marker COI (663 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 709, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a31, http://zenodo.org/record/4382361

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Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/038A87B52112BE58F8B9FDBE1FD1B8B9

Cites
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.4382627 (DOI)
Dataset: http://table.plazi.org/id/DF5C662B2173BE39FB91FF1A1975BE57 (URL)
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Journal article: 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a31 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/4382361 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFB3FFCD217ABE30FB12FFC61B1DBF52 (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:ED85BA40-9044-4174-AD62-8782A3A00805 (URL)
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https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/038A87B52112BE58F8B9FDBE1FD1B8B9 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/176230797 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/9259/taxon/038A87B52112BE58F8B9FDBE1FD1B8B9.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Collection code
INAT , MNHN , MNHN-
Event date
1878-04-15 , 2016-04-27 , 2016-06-01 , 2016-07-20 , 2017-04-25 , 2019-04-26
Verbatim event date
1878-04-15 , 2016-04-27 , 2016-06-01 , 2016-07-20 , 2017-04-25 , 2019-04-26
Scientific name authorship
Olivier
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Orthoptera
Family
Pyrgomorphidae
Genus
Pyrgomorpha
Species
conica
Taxon rank
species
Type status
neotype
Taxonomic concept label
Pyrgomorpha conica (Olivier, 1791) sec. Tlili, Abdellaoui, Chintauan-Marquier, Chouikha, Moussi, Ammar & Desutter-Grandcolas, 2020

References

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  • LATREILLE P. A. 1804. - Histoire naturelle generale et particuliere des crustaces et des insectes. Tome XII. F. Dufart, Paris, 424 p. https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 24882545
  • FIEBER F. X. 1853. - Synopsis der europaischen Orthopteren mit besonderer Rucksicht der Bohmischen Arten. Lotos 3: 90 - 104, 115 - 131.
  • BONNET E. & FINOT A. 1885. - Les Orthopteres de la regence de Tunis. Revue des sciences naturelles, 3 eme serie 4: 193 - 232, 333 - 365.
  • FINOT A. 1895. - Faune de l'Algerie et de la Tunisie. Insectes Orthopteres. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France 64: 57 - 120, 401 - 552, 655 - 676.
  • VOSSELER J. 1902 b. - Beitrage zur Faunistik und Biologie der Orthopteren Algeriens und Tunesiens, II. Theil. Zoologische Jahrbucher. Abteilung fur Systematik, Geographie Und Biologie Der Tiere 17: 1 - 99.
  • 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
  • BOLIVAR I. 1904. - Notas sobre los pirgomorfidos (Pyrgomorphidae). VI. Poecilocerinae. VII. Pyrgomorphinae. Boletin de la Real Sociedad Espanola de Historia Natural 4: 432 - 459.
  • CHOPARD L. 1943. - Faune de l'Empire francais: I OrthopteroIdes de l'Afrique du Nord. Librairie Larose, Paris, 450 p.
  • MASSA B. & RIZZO M. C. 1998. - Orthoptera raccolti in Tunisia nel XIX secolo e conservati nel museo civico di storia naturale " G. Doria " di Genova. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale X. I.: 273 - 292.
  • WILLEMSE L. P. M., KLEUKERS R. M. J. C. & ODE B. 2018. - The grasshoppers of Greece. EIS Kenniscentrum Insecten en andere ongewervelden. 440 p.
  • USMANI M. K. 2008. - Studies on Acridoidea (Orthoptera) with some new records from Fezzan, Libya. Zootaxa 1946: 1 - 41. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 1946.1.1