Oedipoda miniata mauritanica Lucas, 1849

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 : 625-626

Oedipoda miniata mauritanica Lucas, 1849

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Oedipoda miniata – Chopard 1943: 300 (misidentification). — Massa & Rizzo 1998: 286 (misidentification).

Oedipoda gratiosa – Bonnet & Finot 1885: 216 (misidentification). — Finot 1895: 442 (misidentification). — Vosseler 1902a: 357 (misidentification).

Oedipoda mauritanica Lucas, 1849a: 32 .

Oedipoda miniata mauritanica – Lepiney & Mimeur 1932: 14.

Oedipoda miniata mauretanica – Johnston 1956: 520 (misspelling).

TYPE SPECIMEN. — Algeria • ♀; holotype; Oran; MNHN .

DISTRIBUTION. — North Africa, Sardinia, Sicily, and Balearic Islands ( Fontana et al. 2019).

DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Djerba ( Bonnet & Finot 1885); Sfax, Gabes ( Vosseler 1902a).

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Algeria • 1 ♀; holotype; Oran; MNHN-EO-CAELIF416 .

Tunisia • 1 ♂; Kasserine, Laayoune ; 5.VIII.2016; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF 4693 • 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4694 • 4 ♀; same data; INAT .

NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Kasserine, Laayoune, Gafsa, Sened.

HABITAT. — Subdesert areas ( Usmani 2008).

DNA SEQUENCES. — We generated a new sequence for the mitochondrial marker COI (655 bp) ( Table 4 ).

Figures

FIG. 44. — Habitus of Oedipoda miniata mauritanica Lucas, 1849: 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.