Pamphagus tunetanus Vosseler, 1902

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 : 707

Pamphagus tunetanus Vosseler, 1902

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Pamphagus marmoratus var. tunetanus Vosseler, 1902a: 391 .

Pamphagus tunetanus – Uvarov 1942 ( 1941): 347. — Chopard, 1943: 427.

Acinipe tunetana Chopard, 1943: 378 . — Descamps & Mounassif 1972: 248.

TYPE SPECIMEN. — Tunisia • syntypes; MNHN .

DISTRIBUTION. — Tunisia ( Massa & Rizzo 1998); Libya ( Massa 2013).

DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Kerkennah Island, Sfax ( Massa et al. 1993).

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Tunisia • 1 ♂; syntype; Djel (el) Bou Kornien ; 9.V. (18)83 (identified as a type of Pamphagus tunetanus Vosseler, 1902 by M. Descamps & M. Mounassif, 1972 and a type of Acinipe tunetana Chopard, 1943 by M. Descamps, 1972); MNHN-EO-CAELIF22 • 1 ♂; Kasserine, Sbeitla ; 15.IV.2016; M. Mahfoudhi; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4721 • 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4722 • 4 ♂, 1 ♀; same data; INAT • 1 ♀; Kasserine, Mehreza ; 26.IV.2016; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF9151 • 1 ♀; same data; INAT .

NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Kasserine, Sbeitla, Mehreza.

HABITAT. — Foothills of grassy mountains (H. Tlili, pers. obs).

Figures

FIG. 68. — Habitus of Pamphagus tunetanus Vosseler, 1902: A, B, female from Kasserine, Tunisia, dorsal view (A), lateral view (B); C, D, male from Kasserine, Tunisia, dorsal view (C), lateral view (D). Scale bars: 1 cm. Photos: H. Tlili.