Uromenus melillae Nadig, 1994

MOROCCO, E of Zaio, N 34.95247, W 002.59960, 115 m a.s.l., 03 vi 2013, leg. D. Chobanov

The male stridulatory file carries about 73 teeth (Fig. 7; Tab. 2). In the middle of the file the inter-tooth intervals are about 63 µm.

Morphology. The species was compared to U. finoti by Nadig (1994) and based on this resemblance placed in the same subgroup. Our specimens clearly resemble U. finoti by the shape of the male 10th tergum and epiproct (Fig. 10E 1), while cerci differ by the possession of a longer, backward pointing sharp process ending with a black tooth (Fig. 10E 1) (lacking in U. finoti —see Fig. 10A 2).

Ecology. The species was collected in the valley of Moulouya river in a xeric semiruderal habitat of Mediterranean type (Fig. 1Q). The locality fits the Köppen climate type BSh (Hot semi-arid)(Verner et al. 2018) .