Oedipoda fuscocincta fuscocincta 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

Oedipoda fuscocincta fuscocincta Lucas, 1849 **

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Oedipoda fusco-cincta Lucas, 1849b: 31 .

Oedipoda fuscocincta – Walker 1870a: 737. — Bonnet & Finot 1885: 216. — Krauss 1892a: 148. — Finot 1895: 441. — Vosseler 1902a: 358. — Chopard 1943: 299. — Massa & Rizzo 1998: 286.

Oedipoda fuscocincta var. – Finot 1895: 443.

Oedipoda fuscocincta fuscocincta – Uvarov 1936: 130.

TYPE SPECIMEN. — Algeria • ♂; holotype; MNHN .

DISTRIBUTION. — Iberian Peninsula, France, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Canary Islands and Azores, Corsica, Sicily ( Galvagni 2010); Egypt ( Haggag et al. 2008).

DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Recorded only from the north part of Tunisia ( Bonnet & Finot 1885; Krauss 1892a; Finot 1895; Vosseler 1902a; Chopard 1943; Massa & Rizzo 1998).

MATERIAL EXAMINED.— Algeria • 1♂; holotype; H. Lucas; MNHN-EO-CAELIF411 .

Tunisia • 1 ♀; Gafsa, Ben Younes Mountain ; 17.VII.2016; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4692 • 2 ♀; same data; INAT .

NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Gafsa, Ben Younes Mountain; Kasserine, Laayoune.

HABITAT. — Subdesert areas and stony places ( Usmani 2008); foothills (H. Tlili, pers. obs).

DNA SEQUENCES. — We generated a new sequence for the mitochondrial marker COI (656 bp) ( Table 4 ).

Figures

FIG. 43. — Habitus of Oedipoda fuscocincta fuscocincta Lucas,1849: A, B, female from Gafsa, Tunisia,dorsal view (A), lateral view (B); C, D, male from Morocco, dorsal view (C), lateral view (D). Scale bars: 1 cm. Photos: H. Tlili.