Pamphagidae (Orthoptera: Caelifera) of North Africa: key to genera and the annotated check-list of species
Massa, Bruno
Zootaxa
2013
3700
3
435
475
5LK83
Lucas, 1851
Lucas
1851
[161,566,1337,1363]
Insecta
Pamphagidae
Tmethis
Animalia
Orthoptera
3
438
Arthropoda
subSpecies
cisti
clavelii
Material examined. Algeria: Boghar ( typelocality), 5♂, 6♀; Ain Sefra, 12♂, 5♀ (MNCN). Described as species and afterwards considered a subspecies of T. cisti(Uvarov 1943). According to Lucas (1851) main characteristics of this taxon are: trilobate prozona ( Figs. 32–33, 40–41), long tegmina (more than abdomen) ( Figs. 40–41, 54), hind wings just shorter than tegmina, pink-reddish inside with a central brown stripe (consisting of separated wide spots) just reaching half of the pink-reddish area. Three small spots are present on the fore border of the wing, above the brown area ( Fig. 54). Hindtibiae are yellow, as the inner side of femurs, that bear a brown spot inside, shorter than that of other populations. It has been cited only from Algeria(Lucas 1851, Krauss 1902) and has been considered by Saussure (1888) a possible variety of T. pulchripennis, by Chopard (1943) a synonym of T. pulchripennis, and by Uvarov (1943) a subspecies of T. cisti. Its distribution overlaps with that of T. cistiand T. pulchripennisand covers the western part of inner Algeria. Concerning its biometrics (cf. Table 1), they lie within the variability of T. cisti, as well as the pattern of hind wings colour. Therefore, I think that it could be treated as a synonym of T. cisti.