Tmethis maroccanus hirtus Uvarov, 1943

Massa, Bruno, 2013, Pamphagidae (Orthoptera: Caelifera) of North Africa: key to genera and the annotated check-list of species, Zootaxa 3700 (3), pp. 435-475 : 440

[ Tmethis maroccanus hirtus Uvarov, 1943 ]

Described from East Morocco and West Algeria (Colomb-Bechar), characterized by hind tibiae and the inside of hind femurs from bright-red to dark-red, and body and legs unusually covered by dense and long hairs. As we observed above, the genus Tmethis is very variable and the colour of hind tibiae cannot be used as diagnostic character; hairs also in some specimens may be denser than in others (e.g., T. cisti mozabiticus ). Additionally, some localities of hirtus cited by Uvarov (1943) (Talialit, Midelt) overlap with the distribution of maroccanus . For these reasons I consider T. maroccanus monotypic, with hirtus its synonym.