Ochrilidia gracilis gracilis ( 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 : 621

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Ochrilidia gracilis gracilis ( Krauss, 1902) *

( Fig. 26 View FIG )

Platypterna gracilis Krauss 1902: 236 View in CoL . — Chopard 1943: 264.

Ochrilidia gracilis – Chopard 1950: 137.

Ochrilidia gracilis gracilis – Massa 1994: 7.

TYPE SPECIMEN. — Algeria • ♂; holotype; Ghardaia; SMNS .

DISTRIBUTION. — Algeria ( Zergoun et al. 2019); Egypt ( Willemse 2009); Sindh, Pakistan ( Sultana et al. 2013). This species is widespread in North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa to Central Asia ( Mestre & Chiffaud 2006).

DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Maknassy, Bou Hedma ( Chopard 1943); Tamerza ( Massa 1994).

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Tunisia • 1 ♂; Meknassy; 4.IX.1929; C. Dumont; MNHN-EO-CAELIF397 • 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF 398 .

NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — None.

HABITAT. — Humid places and oases ( Moussi et al. 2011).

References

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

CHOPARD L. 1950. - Contribution a l'etude de l'Air. Orthopteroldes. Memoires de l'Institut Francais d'Afrique Noire 10: 127 - 145.

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

MASSA B. 1994. - Note corologiche e biologiche su alcuni ortotteri mediterranei. Bollettino della Societa entomologica italiana Genova 126 (1): 3 - 8.

MESTRE J. & CHIFFAUD J. 2006. - Catalogue et atlas des acridiens d'Afrique de l'Ouest, 349 p.

MOUSSI A., ABBA A., HARRAT A. & PETIT D. 2011. - Desert acridian fauna (Orthoptera, Acridomorpha): Comparison between steppic and oasian habitats in Algeria. Comptes Rendus de Biologie 334 (2): 158 - 167. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. crvi. 2010.12.001

SULTANA R., SAEED WAGAN Y. & SAEED WAGAN M. 2013. - Orthopteran Biodiversity of Thar Desert, Sindh, Pakistan. Pakistan Journal of Zoology 45 (2): 299 - 304.

WILLEMSE J. 2009. - Orthoptera-Saltatoria species observed in Egypt and Jordan between 2001 and 2006. Articulata 24 (1 / 2): 123 - 130.

ZERGOUN Y., GUEZOUL O., SEKOUR M., BOURAS N. & HOLTZ M. D. 2019. - Acridid (Orthoptera: Caelifera) diversity in agriculture ecosystems at three locations in the Mzab valley, Septentrional Sahara, Algeria. Journal of Insect Biodiversity 9 (1): 18 - 27. https: // doi. org / 10.12976 / jib / 2019.09.1.2

Figures

FIG. 26. — Habitus of Ochrilidia gracilis gracilis (Krauss,1902): A, B, female from Sidi Bouzid,Tunisia,dorsal view (A), lateral view (B); C, D, male from Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia, dorsal view (C), lateral view (D). Scale bars: 1 cm. Photos: H. Tlili

Abbreviations

SMNS	Germany, Stuttgart, Staatliches Museum fuer Naturkunde
SMNS	Staatliches Museum fuer Naturkund Stuttgart

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Orthoptera
SubOrder	Caelifera
Family	Baissogryllidae
SubFamily	Gomphocerinae
Genus	Ochrilidia

Ochrilidia gracilis gracilis ( Krauss, 1902 )

Tlili, Haithem, Abdellaoui, Khemais, Chintauan-Marquier, Ioana C., Chouikha, Manel Ben, Moussi, Abdelhamid, Ammar, Mohamed & Desutter-Grandcolas, Laure 2020

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