Acinipe Rambur, 1838

Massa, Bruno, 2013, Pamphagidae (Orthoptera: Caelifera) of North Africa: key to genera and the annotated check-list of species, Zootaxa 3700 (3), pp. 435-475 : 450

Acinipe Rambur, 1838 (type-species: Acinipe hesperica Rambur )

This genus has been revised by Descamps & Mounassif (1972), Biondi & Massa (1995) (with the exclusion of Iberian species) and Llorente del Moral & Presa Asensio (1997) (only Iberian species); thus, keys to all the species are available. On the whole, 18 species are known in North Africa, of which one ( A. hesperica ) is represented by six subspecies. Further eight species are known from the Iberian peninsula. When Biondi & Massa (1995) revised the genus, they did not dispose of specimens of Acinipe calabra from Calabria (type locality) to compare with A. calabra from North Africa; now I examined 3 males from Bova (Reggio Calabria) and found the same small differences detected comparing specimens from Sicily with those of North Africa: aedeagus valves from back view are just wider in typical calabra than in North African specimens. However, I did not find other differences. Biondi & Massa (1995) did not find biometric differences between North African and Sicilian specimens; thus, I consider them conspecific. This is the current list of North African species: Acinipe algerica (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1882), Acinipe algeriensis Descamps et Mounassif, 1972 , Acinipe angustipennis Chopard, 1943 , Acinipe arthemisiae Descamps et Mounassif, 1972 , Acinipe atlantis Descamps et Mounassif, 1972 , Acinipe bicoloripes Descamps et Mounassif, 1972 , Acinipe calabra (Costa, 1836) , Acinipe dissipata Descamps et Mounassif, 1972 , Acinipe expansa (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1882), Acinipe hesperica hesperica Rambur, 1838 (with the following subspecies, that should deserve further studies: Acinipe hesperica ahansala Descamps et Mounassif, 1972 , Acinipe hesperica coerulipes Descamps et Mounassif, 1972 , Acinipe hesperica lepineyi Chopard, 1943 , Acinipe hesperica melillensis Bolivar, 1912 , Acinipe hesperica pygmaea Descamps et Mounassif, 1972 ), Acinipe minima Werner, 1931 , Acinipe muelleri (Krauss, 1893) , Acinipe nadigi Descamps et Mounassif, 1972 [= Acinipe nadigi punctata Descamps et Mounassif, 1972 ], Acinipe rifensis Descamps et Mounassif, 1972 , Acinipe rungsi Descamps et Mounassif, 1972 , Acinipe strigata Roberts, 1938 , Acinipe tibialis (Fieber, 1853) , Acinipe tubericollis Werner, 1932 .