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Sphingonotus (Sphingonotus) rubescens subsp. rubescens rubescens (Walker 1870

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

Sphingonotus (Sphingonotus) rubescens rubescens (Walker, 1870)

(Fig. 53)

Oedipoda rubescens Walker, 1870b: 2304.

Sphingonolus coerulans (Linnaeus, 1767) – Finot 1895: 469 (misidentification rectified by Chopard 1943: 318). — Vosseler 1902a: 372 (misidentification rectified by Uvarov 1923b: 67).

Sphingonotus rubescens – Kirby 1910: 274. — Chopard 1943: 318 – Tlili et al. 2019a: 391.

Sphingonotus rubescens rubescens – Mistshenko 1936: 168.

Sphingonotus (Sphingonotus) rubescens rubescens – Shishodia et al. 2010: 101.

TYPE SPECIMENS. — Egypt • ♂; type lost (Johnston 1956); Sinai • ♀; holotype; Sinai; NHM.

DISTRIBUTION. — This species is widely distributed from Central Asia to North and Sub-Saharan Africa (Mistshenko 1936).

DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Tozeur, Gouifla (Tlili et al. 2019a).

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Tunisia • 1 ♂; Gafsa, Jebel Ben Younes; 01.IV.2017; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4709 • 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4710 • 1 ♂; same data; 26.IV.2019; MNHN-EO-CAELIF 7075 • 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7076 • 1 ♂; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7077 • 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7078 • 1 ♂; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7079 • 1 ♀; Gafsa, El Guetar; 30.IV.2017; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7080 • 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7081 • 1♀; Tozeur, Degache; 29.IV.2016; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4700 • 1 ♀; Kasserine, Sbeitla; 25.VII.2017; M. Mahfoudhi; INAT.

NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Kasserine, Sbeitla; Gafsa, Jebel Ben Younes, El Guetar; Tozeur, Degache.

HABITAT. — Desert or semi-desert region (Usmani 2008); base of mountain (H. Tlili, pers. obs.).

DNA SEQUENCES. — We generated new sequences for two markers: COI (653 bp) and ND2 (449 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 703, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a31, http://zenodo.org/record/4382361

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Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/038A87B52118BE52F877FD9E1FC0B9A4

Cites
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.4382589 (DOI)
Dataset: http://table.plazi.org/id/DF5C662B2173BE39FB91FF1A1975BE57 (URL)
Is part of
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/038A87B52118BE52F877FD9E1FC0B9A4 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/176230764 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/9259/taxon/038A87B52118BE52F877FD9E1FC0B9A4.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Collection code
INAT , MNHN- , NHM , TYPE
Event date
2016-04-29 , 2017-04-01 , 2017-04-30 , 2017-07-25 , 2019-04-26
Family
Baissogryllidae
Genus
Sphingonotus
Kingdom
Animalia
Material sample ID
EO-CAELIF7075
Order
Orthoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
rubescens (Walker
Species
rubescens
Taxon rank
subSpecies
Type status
holotype , type
Verbatim event date
2016-04-29 , 2017-04-01 , 2017-04-30 , 2017-07-25 , 2019-04-26
Taxonomic concept label
Sphingonotus (Sphingonotus) rubescens subsp. rubescens (Walker, 1870 sec. Tlili, Abdellaoui, Chintauan-Marquier, Chouikha, Moussi, Ammar & Desutter-Grandcolas, 2020

References

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  • 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
  • KIRBY W. F. 1910. - A Synonymic Catalogue of the Orthoptera. Vol. 3., Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 674 p.
  • TLILI H., ABDELLAOUI K., BEN CHOUIKHA M., MHAFDHI M., JEM- MAZI A., AMMAR M., & DESUTTER- GRANDCOLAS L. 2019 a. - First record of Dericorys albidula Serville, 1838 (Orthoptera: Dericorythidae) inTunisia and Libya. Zootaxa 4551 (3): 385 - 393. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4551.3.7
  • MISTSHENKO L. 1936. - Revision of Paleartic species of the genus Sphingonotus Fieber (Orth. Acrid.). Eos. Madrid 12: 65 - 282.
  • SHISHODIA M. S., CHANDRA K. & GUPTA S. K. 2010. - An annotated checklist of Orthoptera (Insecta) from India. Zoological Survey of India, Miscellaneous Publication, Occasional Paper 314: 1 - 366.
  • JOHNSTON H. B. 1956. - Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers. Cambridge University Press, 833 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

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