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Euryparyphes quadridentatus This

Description

4. Euryparyphes quadridentatus (Brisout, 1852)

Diagnosis: The species can be identified by its pronotum tectiform, median carina elevated, wrinkled, with a thin longitudinal furrow, crossed by posterior sulcus at posterior third, lateral carinae well developed, obtuse.

Habitats: This species is fairly well distributed all over Libya but collected from one locality in Fezzan on vegetable in small number.

Material examined: Sebha Region: Samnu, 2♀, on vegetable, 18.vi.1990.

Localities: Cyrenaica; Tripolitania; Gas-Garabulli, Tripoli; Fezzan; Samnu.

Distribution: Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Libya.

Remarks: This species was earlier recorded from Tripolitania by Jannone (1938).

Notes

Published as part of Usmani, Mohammad Kamil, 2008, Studies on Acridoidea (Orthoptera) with some new records from Fezzan, Libya, pp. 1-41 in Zootaxa 1946 on pages 12-13

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Event date
1990-06-18
Family
Pamphagidae
Genus
Euryparyphes
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Orthoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
This
Species
quadridentatus
Taxon rank
species
Verbatim event date
1990-06-18
Taxonomic concept label
Euryparyphes quadridentatus (Brisout, 1852) sec. Usmani, 2008

References

  • Jannone, G. (1938) Primo Contributo alla conoscenza deli Ortotterofauna della Libia. Bolletino Laboratorie Z oologia Portici, 30 ,87 - 120.