Ochrilidia geniculata ( 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 : 620-621

Ochrilidia geniculata ( Bolívar, 1913)

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Platypterna geniculata Bolívar, 1913: 608 . — Chopard 1943: 263.

Platypterna rothschildi Bolívar, 1913: 607 .

Platypterna kraussi Bolívar, 1913: 610 .

Platypterna lybica Salfi, 1925: 289 .

Platypterna pruinosa agedabiae Salfi, 1928: 244 .

Ochrilidia geniculata – Chopard 1949: 193. — Massa 1994: 6.

TYPE SPECIMEN. — Algeria • ♂; lectotype ( Jago 1977); El Golea ; MNCN .

DISTRIBUTION. — Widespread from North Africa ( Chopard 1943; Usmani 2008) and sub-Saharan Africa across the Arabian Peninsula to Pakistan and India ( Mestre & Chiffaud 2006); Iran ( Garai 2011).

DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Meknassi ( Chopard 1943); Nefta, Gafsa, Mareth, Kerkennah Island ( Massa 1994).

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Tunisia • 1 ♂; Gafsa, El Guetar ; 30.IV.2017; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4673 • 1♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4674 • 1 ♀; same data; 04.X.2016; INAT • 1 ♂, 1 ♀; same data; ISA-CM • 1 ♀; Gafsa, Douwara ; 20.VII.2016; H. Tlili; INAT .

NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Gafsa, El Guetar, Sened, Douwara; Tozeur, Souani Ali; Kebili, Rahmet.

HABITAT. — Widely distributed in grassland sub-desert areas ( Usmani 2008).

REMARKS. — Ochrilidia geniculata showed a mean density of 50 individuals/m ² in the site of Degache (Tozeur) at the herbaceous layer (without economic importance) (H. Tlili, pers. obs).

DNA SEQUENCES. — We generated a new sequence for the mitochondrial marker COI (651 bp) ( Table 4 ).

Figures

FIG. 25. — Habitus of Ochrilidia geniculata (Bolívar, 1913): 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.