Pyrgomorpha conica ( Olivier, 1791 )

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 : 709

Pyrgomorpha conica ( Olivier, 1791)

( Fig. 75 )

Acridium conicum Olivier, 1791: 230 .

Truxalis grylloides Latreille, 1804: 148 .

Pyrgomorpha grylloides – Fieber 1853: 97. — Bonnet & Finot 1885: 222. — Finot 1895: 490. — Vosseler 1902b: 7.

Pyrgomorpha cognata – Vosseler 1902a: 387 (misidentification rectified by Uvarov 1923b: 74).

Pyrgomorpha conica – Bolívar 1904: 452. — Chopard 1943: 338. — Massa & Rizzo 1998: 279.

TYPE SPECIMEN. — France • ♀; neotype (Mc Kevan 1971); South France ; MNHN .

DISTRIBUTION. — Very common around the Mediterranean Sea, in West Africa and the Middle East extending up to India ( Willemse et al. 2018).

DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Recorded from the north to the south of the country ( Bonnet & Finot 1885; Finot 1895); Tamerza ( Massa & Rizzo 1998: 279); Sfax, Graiba, Gabes ( Vosseler 1902a).

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Tunisia • 1♂; Gafsa, Moulares, Chanoufia ; 27.IV.2016; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4729 • 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4730 • 1 ♂, 1 ♀; same data; INAT • 1 ♂; Gafsa, Douwara ; 20.VII.2016; H. Tlili; INAT • 1♀; Sidi Bouzid, Meknassi ; 1929; C. Dumont; MNHN-EO-CAELIF950 • 1 ♂; Gafsa, Amra ; 26.IV.2019; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7057 • 1♂; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7058 • 1 ♂; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7059 • 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7060 • 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7061 • 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF 7062 • 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7063 • 1♀; Kebili, Essagui ; 25.IV.2017; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7064 • 1 ♂, 4 ♀; Gafsa, Metkides ; 01.VI.2016; H. Tlili; INAT • 1 ♀; Gafsa, Sened ; 01.VI.2016; H. Tlili; INAT .

France • 1 ♀; neotype; Cannes; 15.IV.1878; A. Finot; MNHN-EO-CAELIF 970 .

NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Gafsa, Metkides, Gafsa, Sened, Gafsa, Moulares, Gafsa, Douwara; Tozeur, Souani Ali.

HABITAT. — Dry habitats ( Usmani 2008).

DNA SEQUENCES. — We generated a new sequence for the mitochondrial marker COI (663 bp) ( Table 4 ).

Figures

FIG. 75. — Habitus of Pyrgomorpha conica (Olivier,1791): A, B, female from Gafsa, Tunisia, dorsal view (A), lateral view (B); C, D, male from Gafsa,Tunisia, dorsal view (C), lateral view (D). Scale bars: 1 cm. Photos: H. Tlili.