Heteracris adspersa adspersa ( Redtenbacher, 1889 )

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 adspersa adspersa ( Redtenbacher, 1889) *

( Fig. 19 )

Euprepocnemis adspersa Redtenbacher, 1889: 30 .

Thisoicetrus adspersus – Jacobson & Bianchi 1902: 319.

Heteracris adspersa – Shumakov 1963: 106. — Grunshaw 1991: 37.

Heteracris adspersa adspersa – Buzzetti et al. 2014: 23.

TYPE SPECIMEN. — Transcaspia • ♂; lectotype ( Grunshaw 1991); NMW .

DISTRIBUTION. — Algeria ( Zergoun et al. 2019); Iran ( Garai 2011); Senegal ( Mestre & Chiffaud 2006).

The distribution area of this subspecies extends from southern Spain to central Asia ( Grunshaw 1991); for the sub-Saharan region, H. adspersa adspersa is recorded only in Senegal ( Mestre & Chiffaud 2006).

DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Zarzis ( Grunshaw 1991).

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Tunisia • 1 ♂; Southern Tunisia ; 1919; Abeille de Perrin E.A.E; MNHN-EO-CAELIF3726 .

Algeria • 1♀ Oran; 01.X.1954; H. Maurel;MNHN-EO-CAELIF9131 • 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF9132 .

NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — None.

HABITAT. — Oases and the environment with halophytic plants ( Moussi et al. 2011).

Figures

FIG. 19. — Habitus of Heteracris adspersa adspersa (Redtenbacher, 1889): A, B, female from Oran, Algeria, dorsal view (A), lateral view (B); C, D, male from Oran, Algeria, dorsal view (C), lateral view (D). Scale bars: 1 cm. Photos: S. Poulin.