Helioscirtus gracilis Vosseler, 1902

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 : 623

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a31
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4436565
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scientific name	Helioscirtus gracilis Vosseler, 1902
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Helioscirtus gracilis Vosseler, 1902 *

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Helioscirtus gracilis Vosseler, 1902a: 368 . — Chopard 1943: 322.

Vosseleria gracilis View in CoL – Uvarov 1923d: 30.

TYPE SPECIMEN. — Tunisia • ♀; holotype; Gafsa; SMNS.

DISTRIBUTION. — Tunisia ( Vosseler 1902a).

DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Gafsa ( Vosseler 1902a); Nefzaoua ( Chopard 1943).

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Tunisia • 1 ♂; Kebili, Nefzaoua ; IV.1884; E. Bonnet; MNHN-EO-CAELIF481 .

NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — None.

HABITAT. — Unknown.

REMARKS. — This species has never been recorded since Vosseler (1902a); based on known localities to date, seems endemic to Tunisia.

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Abbreviations

SMNS	Germany, Stuttgart, Staatliches Museum fuer Naturkunde
SMNS	Staatliches Museum fuer Naturkund Stuttgart

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Orthoptera
Family	Baissogryllidae
Genus	Helioscirtus