Melanogryllus desertus ( Pallas, 1771 )

SAHNOUN, AOUAOUCHE MOHAMED, DOUMANDJI, SALAH EDDINE & DESUTTER-GRANDCOLAS, LAURE, 2010, A check-list of Ensifera from Algeria (Insecta: Orthoptera), Zootaxa 2432 (1), pp. 1-44 : 13

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.2432.1.1

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5694869

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scientific name

Melanogryllus desertus ( Pallas, 1771 )
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Melanogryllus desertus ( Pallas, 1771)

Gryllus desertus Pallas, 1771: 468 .

Type locality: Southern Russia.

Distribution: South of the Palearctics, from France and North Africa, to Central Asia ( Gorochov and Llorente 2001).

Biogeographic zones: Shoreline, Tellian Atlas.

Bioclimatic zones: Subhumid, semiarid.

Records in Algeria: Surroundings of Oran [35°40'N 0°39'W] ( Lucas 1849, as Gryllus melas Charpentier, 1825 ). Sidi Ferruch [Sidi fredj] [36°46'N 2°51'E]; Hammam bou Hadjar [35°22'N 0°58'W] ( Chopard 1943). Si Mustapha [36°43'N 3°36'E]; Rouiba [36°44'N 3°17'E] (Mohamed Sahnoun pers. obs.).

Charpentier, T. (1825) Horae entomologicae, adjectis tabulis novem coloratis. A. Gosohorsky, Wratislaviae, xvi + 255 pp, 9 pls.

Chopard, L. (1943) Les Orthopteroides de l'Afrique du Nord. Larose, Paris, 450 pp.

Gorochov, A. V. & Llorente, V. (2001) Estudio taxonomico preliminar de los Grylloidea de Espana (Insecta, Orthoptera). Graellsia, 57, 95 - 139.

Lucas, H. (1849) Exploration scientifique de l'Algerie pendant les annees 1840, 1841, 1842. Arthus Bertrand, Paris, 39 p., pls. 1 - 4.

Pallas, P. S. (1771) Reise duch verschiedene Provinzen des ruischen Reichs. Kayserlichen Akademie der Wisenchaften, St Petersburg, I, 504 pp.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Orthoptera

SubOrder

Ensifera

Family

Haglotettigoniidae

Genus

Melanogryllus