Thalpomena algeriana algeriana ( 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 : 704

Thalpomena algeriana algeriana ( Lucas, 1849)

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Oedipoda algeriana Lucas, 1849b: 34 .

Thalpomena algeriana – Saussure 1884: 184.

Thalpomena algeriana algeriana – Dirsh 1949a: 366. — Massa 1999: 78.

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

DISTRIBUTION. — Algeria ( Moussi et al. 2018); Tunisia ( Massa 1999).

DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Meknassy ( Chopard 1943); Feriana ( Massa 1999).

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Algeria • 1 ♀; holotype; Kouba; H. Lucas; MNHN-EO-CAELIF538.

Tunisia • 1 ♀; Beja, Bechouk ; 12.II.2017; W. Bedoui; MNHN-EO-CAELIF 4712 • 1 ♂; Hammam Lif ; 1901; J. de Gaulle; MNHN-EO-CAELIF3777 • 1 ♂; Tunis; 1901; J. de Gaulle; MNHN-EO-CAELIF3778 • 1♀; Jendouba, Ain Draham ; 1889; S. Seurat; MNHN-EO-CAELIF3779 .

Algeria • 1 ♀; Oran; 14.II.1880; MNHN-EO-CAELIF9146 .

NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — None.

HABITAT. — Rocky, dry and sunny places ( Chopard 1943).

Figures

FIG. 56. — Habitus of Thalpomena algeriana algeriana (Lucas, 1849): A, B, female from Beja, Tunisia, dorsal view (A), lateral view (B); C, D, male from Hammam Lif, Tunisia, dorsal view (C), lateral view (D). Scale bars: 1 cm. Photos: H. Tlili.