Tmethis cisti (Fabricius, 1787)

Usmani, Mohammad Kamil, 2008, Studies on Acridoidea (Orthoptera) with some new records from Fezzan, Libya, Zootaxa 1946, pp. 1-41 : 13

6. Tmethis cisti (Fabricius, 1787)

Uvarov (1943) revised the genus Tmethis Fieber and its species. He recorded seven subspecies of T. cisti from North Africa with their differentiating characters. Of these, four subspecies T. c. cisti (Fabricius,1787) ; T. c. barcaeus Salfi, 1926; T. c. clavelli (Lucas, 1850) and T. c. harterti Uvarov, 1923 have been reported from Cyrenaica and Tripolitania ( Libya) by Werner (1908 b), Ghigi (1913), I. Bolivar (1915), Giglio-Tos (1923), Zanon (1924), Salfi (1925 a,b), Capra (1929), Jannone (1938) and Uvarov (1943). A new subspecies T. c. khaledi was described by Ajaili & Usmani (1999) from Fezzan ( Libya). At present, the species is known to contain five subspecies from Libya including one new subspecies.