Paracinipe foreli (Pictet & Saussure, 1893)

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 : 707

Paracinipe foreli ( Pictet & Saussure, 1893: cf OSF)

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Pamphagus foreli Pictet & Saussure, 1893: 294 . — Krauss 1892a. — Finot 1895: 509. — Vosseler 1902b: 7.

Acinipe foreli – Kirby 1910: 350.

Paracinipe foreli – Descamps & Mounassif 1972: 266. — Massa 2013: 447 .

TYPE SPECIMEN. — Tunisia • ♂; holotype; Gabes; MHNG .

DISTRIBUTION. — Tunisia ( Massa 2013).

DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Gabes ( Pictet & Saussure, 1893 (1891); Krauss 1892a; Massa 2013); Bou Hedma mountain, Bir Arrach, Oued Batcha, Gafsa, Bled Essagui, Maknassy ( Finot 1895; Descamps & Mounassif 1972; Massa 2013); Bled Talah, Arad, Bir Dellaja, R’dir Tiniat, B. Sidi Ali Ben Hamid, El Guettar, Skhira, Djerba Island ( Massa 1996).

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Tunisia • 1♂; Kebili, Essagui ; 28.III.2017; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4723 • 1♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4724 • 1♂; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7088 • 1 ♂; Gafsa, El Guetar ; 30.IV.2017; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7065 .

NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Gafsa, El Guetar; Kebili, Essagui.

HABITAT. — Subdesert environment (H. Tlili, pers. obs).

DNA SEQUENCES. — We generated a new sequence for the mitochondrial marker COI (673 bp) ( Table 4 ).

Figures

FIG. 69. — Habitus of Paracinipe foreli (Pictet & Saussure, 1893): A, B, female from Kebili, Tunisia, dorsal view (A), lateral view (B); C, D, male from Kebili, Tunisia, dorsal view (C), lateral view (D). Scale bars: 1 cm. Photos: H. Tlili.