Paracinipe saharae ( 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 : 708

Paracinipe saharae ( Pictet & Saussure, 1893)

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Pamphagus saharae Pictet & Saussure, 1893: 293 .

Acinipe saharae – Kirby 1910: 350.

Paracinipe saharae – Descamps & Mounassif 1972: 265. — Massa 2013: 447 .

TYPE SPECIMENS. — Algeria • ♂♂, ♀♀; syntypes; Biskra; MHNG .

DISTRIBUTION. — Algeria, Tunisia ( Massa 2013); Libya ( Usmani 2007).

DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Kebili, Oum Ali mountain; Gafsa, Berda mountain ( Descamps & Mounassif 1972; Massa 1996); Bireno mountain, Tamerza ( Massa 2013).

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Tunisia • 1 ♂; Gafsa, Amra ; 26.IV.2019; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7038 • 1 ♀; Gafsa, Ben Younes Mountain ; 26.IV.2019; M. Chwaya; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7039 • 1 ♀; same data; 28.IV.2017; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7040 • 1♀; Gafsa, Sidi Ahmed Zarroug ; 10.IV.2018; W. Aziza; MNHN-EO-CAELIF 7041 • 1 ♂; Gafsa, Berda mountain ; 29.V.1884; E. Bonnet; MNHN-EO-CAELIF50 • 1 ♀; Kebili, Oum Ali mountain ; 26.V.1884; E. Bonnet; MNHN-EO-CAELIF51 .

NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Gafsa, Ben Younes mountain, Sidi Ahmed Zarroug.

HABITAT. — Lives on rocky slopes ( Krauss 1902).

Figures

FIG. 70. — Habitus of Paracinipe saharae (Pictet & Saussure, 1893): A, B, female from Gafsa, Tunisia, dorsal view (A), lateral view (B); C, D, male from Gafsa, Tunisia, dorsal view (C), lateral view (D). Scale bars: 1 cm. Photos: H. Tlili.