Oedipoda miniata mauritanica Lucas, 1849

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 : 625-626

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https://doi.org/10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a31

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4436579

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scientific name

Oedipoda miniata mauritanica Lucas, 1849
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Oedipoda miniata mauritanica Lucas, 1849

( Fig. 44 View FIG )

Oedipoda miniata – Chopard 1943: 300 (misidentification). — Massa & Rizzo 1998: 286 (misidentification).

Oedipoda gratiosa – Bonnet & Finot 1885: 216 (misidentification). — Finot 1895: 442 (misidentification). — Vosseler 1902a: 357 (misidentification).

Oedipoda mauritanica Lucas, 1849a: 32 .

Oedipoda miniata mauritanica – Lepiney & Mimeur 1932: 14.

Oedipoda miniata mauretanica – Johnston 1956: 520 (misspelling).

TYPE SPECIMEN. — Algeria • ♀; holotype; Oran; MNHN .

DISTRIBUTION. — North Africa, Sardinia, Sicily, and Balearic Islands ( Fontana et al. 2019).

DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Djerba ( Bonnet & Finot 1885); Sfax, Gabes ( Vosseler 1902a).

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Algeria • 1 ♀; holotype; Oran; MNHN-EO-CAELIF416 .

Tunisia • 1 ♂; Kasserine, Laayoune ; 5.VIII.2016; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF 4693 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4694 4 ♀; same data; INAT .

NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Kasserine, Laayoune, Gafsa, Sened.

HABITAT. — Subdesert areas ( Usmani 2008).

DNA SEQUENCES. — We generated a new sequence for the mitochondrial marker COI (655 bp) ( Table 4 View TABLE ).

BONNET E. & FINOT A. 1885. - Les Orthopteres de la regence de Tunis. Revue des sciences naturelles, 3 eme serie 4: 193 - 232, 333 - 365.

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

FINOT A. 1895. - Faune de l'Algerie et de la Tunisie. Insectes Orthopteres. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France 64: 57 - 120, 401 - 552, 655 - 676.

FONTANA P., BUZZETTI F. & MASSA B. 2019. - A new rare species of Oedipoda Latreille, 1829 (Orthoptera: Acrididae) from South Italy. Zootaxa 4614 (1): 50 - 60. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4614.1.2

JOHNSTON H. B. 1956. - Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers. Cambridge University Press, 833 p.

LEPINEY J. & MIMEUR J. M. 1932. - Notes d'entomologie agricole et forestiere du Maroc. Memoires de la Societe des sciences naturelles du Maroc, 31, 196 p.

LUCAS P. H. 1849 a. - Exploration Scientifique de l'Algerie: Histoire Naturelle des Animaux Articules. Les Orthopteres 3: 1 - 39.

MASSA B. & RIZZO M. C. 1998. - Orthoptera raccolti in Tunisia nel XIX secolo e conservati nel museo civico di storia naturale G. Doria di Genova. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale X. I.: 273 - 292.

USMANI M. K. 2008. - Studies on Acridoidea (Orthoptera) with some new records from Fezzan, Libya. Zootaxa 1946: 1 - 41. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 1946.1.1

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.

Gallery Image

FIG. 44. — Habitus of Oedipoda miniata mauritanica Lucas, 1849: A, B, female from Kasserine,Tunisia,dorsal view (A), lateral view (B); C, D, male from Kasserine, Tunisia, dorsal view (C), lateral view (D). Scale bars: 1 cm. Photos: H. Tlili.

MNHN

France, Paris, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle

MNHN

Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Orthoptera

SubOrder

Caelifera

Family

Baissogryllidae

SubFamily

Oedipodinae

Genus

Oedipoda