Thalpomena coerulescens Uvarov, 1923

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 : 704

Thalpomena coerulescens Uvarov, 1923

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Thalpomena coerulescens Uvarov, 1923b: 65 . — Dirsh 1949a: 374.

TYPE SPECIMEN. — Algeria • ♀; holotype; Ain Sefra ; NHM .

DISTRIBUTION. — Morocco ( Uvarov 1923b); Algeria ( Moussi et al. 2018); Tunisia ( Dirsh 1949a).

DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Meknassy ( Dirsh 1949a).

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Algeria • 1 ♀; holotype; Ain Sefra; V.1913; W. R & E. H; NHM .

Tunisia • 1 ♀; Meknassy; 1929; C. Dumont; MNHN-EO-CAELIF3790 • 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF9121 .

Morocco • 1 ♂; Sous; 1.VII.1954; C. Rungs; MNHN-EO-CAELIF9122 .

NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — None

HABITAT. — No data.

Figures

FIG. 57. — Habitus of Thalpomena coerulescens Uvarov,1923:A, B, female from Sidi Bouzid,Tunisia,dorsal view (A), lateral view (B); C, D, male from Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia, dorsal view (C), lateral view (D). Scale bars: 1 cm. Photos: H. Tlili.