Leptopternis rothschildi Bolívar, 1913

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 : 624

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scientific name	Leptopternis rothschildi Bolívar, 1913
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Leptopternis rothschildi Bolívar, 1913 **

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Leptopternis rothschildi Bolívar, 1913: 611 .

TYPE SPECIMEN. — Algeria • ♂; holotype; Oued Nsa ; MNCN .

DISTRIBUTION. — Algeria ( Korsakoff 1958).

DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — None.

MATERIAL EXAMINED.— Tunisia • 1 ♂; Tozeur, Gouifla ; 26.VII.2017; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4686 • 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF 4687 .

NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Gafsa, Douwara; Tozeur, Gouifla.

HABITAT. — This species lives in desertic sands and desertic steppe (H. Tlili, pers. obs.).

References

BOLIVAR I. 1913. - Ernst Hartert's expedition to the Central Western Sahara. XVII. Orthopteres. Novitates Zoologicae 20: 603 - 615.

KORSAKOFF M. N. 1958. - Notes sur quelques insectes de Beni- Ounif. Eos, Revista espanola de Entomologia 34: 135 - 148.

FIG. 39. — Habitus of Leptopternis rothschildi Bolívar, 1913: A, B, female from Tozeur, Tunisia, dorsal view (A), lateral view (B); C, D, male from Tozeur, Tunisia, dorsal view (C), lateral view (D). Scale bars: 1 cm. Photos: H. Tlili.

Abbreviations

MNCN	MNCN
MNCN	Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Orthoptera
SubOrder	Caelifera
Family	Baissogryllidae
SubFamily	Oedipodinae
Genus	Leptopternis

Leptopternis rothschildi Bolívar, 1913

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

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