Sciobia umbraculatus ( Linnaeus, 1758 )

Desutter-Grandcolas, Laure, 2010, A check-list of Ensifera from Algeria (Insecta: Orthoptera), Zootaxa 2432, pp. 1-44 : 15-16

Sciobia umbraculatus ( Linnaeus, 1758)

Gryllus (Acheta) umbraculatus Linnaeus, 1758: 428 .

Type locality: Mauritania.

Distribution: Mauritania, North Africa ( Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia) ( Chopard 1943). Biogeographic zones: Shoreline, Tellian Atlas, Central Sahara. Bioclimatic zones: Humid, subhumid, semiarid, saharian.

Records in Algeria: Constantine [36°21'N 6°36'E]; Djimmilah [El Djémilah] [36°18'N 5°44'E] ( Lucas 1849).

Chabet el Ameur [6°38'N 3°41'E] ( Finot 1896). Medea [36°15'N 2°45'E]; Frais Vallon [36°48'N 3°03'E], near Algiers ( Vosseler 1902). Palestro [36°33'N 3°35'E]; La Chiffa [36°28'N 2°43'E] ( Bolivar 1925). Tarfaia [31°38'N 5°55'E]; Margueritte [36°19'N 2°13'E] ( Chopard 1943). Sidi-Sbaa [36°16'N 2°12'E] ( Karahacane 1994). Tizi Ouzou [36°43'N 4°3'E]; Ait Toudert [36°32'N 4°14'E] (Mohamed Sahnoun pers. obs.).