Heteracris harterti ( 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 : 619

Heteracris harterti ( Bolívar, 1913) *

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Thisoicetrus harterti Bolívar, 1913: 614 . — Chopard 1943: 410.

Thisoicetrus littoralis harterti – Uvarov 1923b: 76.

Thisoicetrus littoralis bolívari Uvarov, 1923b: 76 .

Heteracris harterti – Davey et al. 1959: 102. — Massa 1994: 5.

TYPE SPECIMEN. — Algeria • ♀; lectotype ( Grunshaw 1991); Biskra; NHM .

DISTRIBUTION. — Morocco ( Badih & Pascual 1998); Algeria ( Zergoun et al. 2019); Tunisia ( Chopard 1943); Libya ( Usmani 2008); Sub-Saharan Africa ( Grunshaw 1991; Mestre & Chiffaud 2006).

DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Tozeur ( Chopard 1943); Zarzis, Ben Guerdan ( Massa 1994).

MATERIAL EXAMINED.— Tunisia • 1♀; Tozeur, C. Dumont; MNHN-EO-CAELIF 3738 .

Chad • 1 ♂; Soro; 2.VI.1935; Mission d’Etudes de la Biologie des Acridiens ; MNHN-EO-CAELIF1907 .

NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — None.

HABITAT. — Desert environment ( Chopard 1950).

Figures

FIG. 21. — Habitus of Heteracris harterti (Bolívar,1913): A, B, female from Biskra, Algeria, dorsal view (A), lateral view (B); C, D, male from Soro, Chad, dorsal view (C), lateral view (D). Scale bars: 1 cm. Photos: H. Tlili.