Eremogryllus hammadae Krauss, 1902

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, Zoosystema 42 (31), pp. 607-738 : 618

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https://doi.org/10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a31

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scientific name

Eremogryllus hammadae Krauss, 1902
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Eremogryllus hammadae Krauss, 1902 *

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Eremogryllus hammadae Krauss, 1902: 231 . — Vosseler 1902a: 355. — Uvarov 1923b: 64.

Leptopternis quadriocellata Werner, 1931: 202 .

Sphingonotina ochracea Chopard, 1943: 323 View in CoL .

TYPE SPECIMEN. — Algeria • ♀; holotype; Sahara , Ouargla to Ghardaia; ZMHB .

DISTRIBUTION. — North Africa ( Uvarov & Volkonsky 1939); Egypt ( Ebner 1956).

DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Gafsa ( Vosseler 1902a; Uvarov 1923a); Djerba (NHM).

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Tunisia • 1 ♀; Djerba; 17.VI.1982; NHMUK 013806164.

NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — None.

HABITAT. — This species occurs in desert environments ( Uvarov & Volkonsky 1939).

CHOPARD L. 1943. - Faune de l'Empire francais: I OrthopteroIdes de l'Afrique du Nord. Librairie Larose, Paris, 450 p.

EBNER R. 1956. - Ueber einige fur Aegypten neue oder seltene Orthopteren. Bulletin de la Societe entomologique d'Egypte 40: 11 - 20.

KRAUSS H. A. 1902. - Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Orthopteren- Fauna der Sahara. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Koniglichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 52: 230 - 254. https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 13332775

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

UVAROV B. P. 1923 a. - Notes on locusts of economic importance with some new data on the periodicity of locust invasion. Bulletin of Entomological Research 14: 31 - 39. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / S 0007485300028182

UVAROV B. P. & VOLKONSKY M. A. 1939. - Notes on a desert grasshopper with digging habits, Eremogryllus hammadae KRAUSS 1902 (Orthoptera, Acrididae). Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London, (A) 14: 19 - 23. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 3032.1939. tb 00546. x

VOSSELER J. 1902 a. - Beitrage zur Faunistik und Biologie der Orthopteren Algeriens und Tunesiens. Zoologische Jahrbucher. Abteilung fur Systematik, Geographie Und Biologie Der Tiere 16: 337 - 404.

WERNER F. 1931. - Neue Geradflugler (Insecta Orthoptera), gesammelt auf einer im Jahre 1930 mit Unterstutzung der Akademie unternommenen Reise nach Marokko. Anzeiger der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften 68: 201 - 204.

Gallery Image

FIG. 15. — Habitus of Eremogryllus hammadae Krauss, 1902: A, B, female from Tangarfa, Morocco, dorsal view (A), lateral view (B); C, D, male from Djerba, Tunisia, dorsal view (C), lateral view (D). Scale bars: 1 cm. Photos: H. Tlili.

ZMHB

Germany, Berlin, Museum fuer Naturkunde der Humboldt-Universitaet

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Orthoptera

SubOrder

Caelifera

Family

Baissogryllidae

SubFamily

Eremogryllinae

Genus

Eremogryllus