Tmethis cisti (Fabricius, 1787)

Usmani, Mohammad Kamil, 2007, Studies on some Libyan species of Pamphagidae (Orthoptera: Acridoidea), Zootaxa 1625, pp. 47-60 : 56

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.179274
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6240418
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/654A87C6-D26C-FFC9-FF75-A8D6FEB7F8F7
treatment provided by	Plazi (2016-04-06 14:10:32, last updated 2024-11-26 07:43:19)
scientific name	Tmethis cisti (Fabricius, 1787)
status

Treatment

Tmethis cisti (Fabricius, 1787) View in CoL

Gryllus cisti Fabricius, 1787 , Mant. Insect, 1:237..

Acridium hispidulum Palisot de Beauvois, 1805, Inst. Afr. Amer. 200 (Synonymy quoted by Uvarov, 1943) Gryllus locusta versicolor Stoll, 1813 , Repres. Spectres. Sant.' etc., 34 (Synonymy quoted by Uvarov, 1943) Tmethis olivieri Kirby, 1910 , Syn . Cat. Orth., 3: 288 (Synonymy quoted by Uvarov, 1943)

Uvarov (1943) revised the genus Tmethis Fieber View in CoL 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 Salfi (1925), Jannone (1938) and Uvarov (1943). A new subspecies T. c. khaledi subsp. n. 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.

The species with a new subspecies T. c. khaledi was recorded for the first time from Fezzan ( Libya) by the authors in 1999.

References

Ajaili A. A. & Usmani M. K. (1999) A new subspecies Tmethis cisti Khaledi (Orthoptera: Pamphagidae: Akicerinae) from Libya. Shashpa, 6 (1), 1 - 4.

Jannone, G. (1938) Primo Cotributo alla conoscenza dell della Ortottero Fauna della Libya. Bolletino del Laboratoria Zoologia Portici. 30, 87 - 120.

Uvarov, B. P. (1943) The tribe Thrinchini of the subfamily Pamphaginae, and the interrelation of the Aacridid subfamilies (Orthoptera). Transaction of Royal entomological Society, London, 93, 1 - 72.