Acrotylus longipes longipes (Charpentier, 1845)

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 : 622

Acrotylus longipes longipes (Charpentier, 1845)

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Oedipoda longipes Charpentier, 1845: Tab. 54 .

Oedipoda (Acrotylus) longipes – Fieber 1853: 126.

Acrotylus longipes – Walker 1871: 74. — Bonnet & Finot 1885: 215. — Finot 1895: 452. — Vosseler 1902a: 360.— Chopard 1943: 301.

Acrotylus longipes longipes – Otte 1995: 320.

TYPE SPECIMEN. — Greece • ♂; neotype; Epidaurus; Harz collection .

DISTRIBUTION. — Southeastern Europe, Africa, and southwestern Asia ( Willemse et al. 2018); Croatia ( Papković & Jelinčić 2019); Morocco, Algeria, Canary Islands ( Moussi et al. 2018); Tunisia, Egypt ( Haggag et al. 2008).

DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Tozeur, Bou Hedma, El Guetar ( Bonnet & Finot 1885: 215; Finot 1895); Bir Bou Rekbah, Graiba, Gafsa ( Vosseler 1902a); Maknassy ( Chopard 1943).

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Tunisia • 1 ♀; Kebili, Essagui ; 24.V.2017; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4678 • 1♂; Gafsa, Sened ; 17.VII.2017; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4677 • 1 ♀; same data; INAT • 1♂, 1♀; Gafsa, Douwara ; 27.VI.2016; H. Tlili • 1 ♂, 1♀; same data; ISA-CM • 1 ♀; same data; INAT • 1 ♂, 1 ♀; Gafsa, Douwara ; 27.VI.2016; H. Tlili • 1 ♂, 1 ♀; same data; ISA-CM .

NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Kebili, Essagui; Gafsa, Sened; Gafsa, Douwara.

HABITAT. — Acrotylus longipes longipes almost always coexists in the same habitat with Acrotylus insubricus insubricus .

DNA SEQUENCES. — We generated a new sequence for the mitochondrial marker COI (654 bp) ( Table 4 ).

Figures

FIG. 30. — Habitus of Acrotylus longipes longipes (Charpentier, 1845): 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.