Tmethis cisti (Fabricius, 1787)

Usmani, Mohammad Kamil, 2008, Studies on Acridoidea (Orthoptera) with some new records from Fezzan, Libya, Zootaxa 1946, pp. 1-41 : 13

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5231498

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scientific name

Tmethis cisti (Fabricius, 1787)
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Uvarov (1943) revised the genus Tmethis Fieber and its species. He recorded seven subspecies of T. cisti from North Africa with their differentiating characters. Of these, four subspecies T. c. cisti (Fabricius,1787) ; T. c. barcaeus Salfi, 1926; T. c. clavelli (Lucas, 1850) and T. c. harterti Uvarov, 1923 have been reported from Cyrenaica and Tripolitania ( Libya) by Werner (1908 b), Ghigi (1913), I. Bolivar (1915), Giglio-Tos (1923), Zanon (1924), Salfi (1925 a,b), Capra (1929), Jannone (1938) and Uvarov (1943). A new subspecies T. c. khaledi was described by Ajaili & Usmani (1999) from Fezzan ( Libya). At present, the species is known to contain five subspecies from Libya including one new subspecies.

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Uvarov, B. P. (1943) The tribe Thrinchini of the subfamily Pamphaginae, and the interrelation of the Acridid subfamilies (Orthoptera). Transanction of Royal Entomological Society, London, 93, 1 - 72.

Werner, F. (1908) Zur kenntniss der Orthopteren-fauna von Tripolis und Barka, Nach der sammlung von Dr. Bruno Klaptocz im Jahre 1906. Zoologische Jahrbucher Systematik, 27, 83 - 143; 123, 363 - 404.

Zanon, V. (1924) Contributo alla conoscenza della fauna entomologica della Cirenaica. Ortotteri di Bengasi. Memoirs of the Accademia Nuovi Lincei, (2) 7, 229 - 249.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Orthoptera

Family

Pamphagidae

Genus

Tmethis