Acheta domesticus ( Linnaeus, 1758 )

Desutter-Grandcolas, Laure, 2010, A check-list of Ensifera from Algeria (Insecta: Orthoptera), Zootaxa 2432, pp. 1-44 : 7

Acheta domesticus ( Linnaeus, 1758)

Gryllus (Acheta) domesticus Linnaeus, 1758: 428 .

Type locality: Europe.

Distribution: Cosmopolitan species ( Chopard 1961).

Biogeographic zones: Shoreline, Tellian Atlas, High Plateaux, Saharian Atlas, Northern Sahara, Central Sahara.

Bioclimatic zones: Humid, subhumid, semiarid, arid, saharian. Records in Algeria: Chabet el Ameur [6°38’N 3°41’E]; Lalla Marghnia [34°50’N 1°43’W]; Nemours [3°56’N 1°51’W]; Biskra [34°51’N 5°43’E] ( Finot 1896). Palmgrove in Ghardaia [32°28'N 3°40'E]; Ouargla [31°57'N 5°18'E]; palmgrove in Guerrara [32°50’N 4°30’E]; Mraier [33°57'N 5°55'E] ( Krauss 1902). El Goléa [30°34’N 2°52’E] ( Bolivar 1913). Tezzeit ( Chopard 1929). Hammam Meskoutine [36°27'N 7°16'E]; El Kantara [36°13'N 5°42'E]; Biskra [34°51’N 5°43’E]; Laghouat [33°48’N 2°52’E]; Colomb Béchar [31°36'N 2°10'W] ( Chopard 1943). Bouzeguène [36°36’N 4°26’E] ( Brahmi 2001, 2005). Tlemcen [34°52’N 1°18'W] ( Damerdji and Adjlami 2002). Adrar [27°52'N 0°16'E] (Mohamed Sahnoun pers. obs.).