Tuarega insignis (Lucas, 1851)

Usmani, Mohammad Kamil, 2007, Studies on some Libyan species of Pamphagidae (Orthoptera: Acridoidea), Zootaxa 1625, pp. 47-60 : 55

Tuarega insignis (Lucas, 1851)

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Oedipoda insignis Lucas, 1851 , Ann. Soc. ent. Fr. (2)9: 370.

Eremobia jaminii Lucas, 1853 , Ann. Soc. ent. Fr. (3)1: lXV(Lucas,1857: CVIl). Batrachotettis elephas Saussure, 1884, Mem. Soc. Phys. Geneve, 28(9): 236, 237 (Saussure, 1888: 135).

Tuarega insignis (Lucas, 1851) : Uvarov, 1943, Trans. R. ent. Soc. Land 93: 47.

Tuarega insignis (Lucas, 1851) ; Dirsh, 1965, Afr. gen. Acrid. ALRC, 87.

It has been earlier reported from Libya by Dirsh (1965). It can be identified by its large, robust body and short, narrow head, pronotal carina practically straight, week, linear, sometimes indistinct, narrowly interrupted by the typical sulcus ( Uvarov, 1943); metazona with thin edge, almost two times as long as prozona; tegmina very long, reaching the apex of hind tibia.

Material examined: Al - Shati Region: Brack 3Ψ, on grass, 15.xii.94.

Localities: Libya: Fezzan: A1-Shati.

Distribution: Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Rio de Oro, Sahara, Tunisia, Mouretania, Tibesti. Hoggar,