Paraeuryparyphes quadridentatus ( Brisout, 1852 )

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 : 708

Paraeuryparyphes quadridentatus ( Brisout, 1852) *

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Acinipe quadridentata Brisout, 1852: LXVII .

Acridium quadridentata – Brisout 1854: LXXII.

Porthetis quadridentata – Walker 1871: 56.

Eunapius quadridentatus – Bonnet & Finot 1885: 341.

Eunapius numida Saussure, 1887: 79 .

Euryparyphes quadridentatus – Kirby 1910: 353.

Paraeuryparyphes quadridentatus – La Greca 1993: 394. — Massa 2012: 385.

TYPE SPECIMEN. — Algeria • ♀; type lost ( Chopard 1943); unknown repository.

DISTRIBUTION. — Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia ( Massa 2012); Libya ( Massa 2013).

DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Sfax, Bir Arrach ( Bonnet & Finot 1885; Massa 2012; Hollier 2012b).

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Tunisia • 1♂; Sfax, Bir Arrach ; 19.IV.1884; E. Bonnet & A. Finot; MNHN-EO-CAELIF2654 • 1♀; Bir el Aja; 20.IV.1884; E. Bonnet & A. Finot; MNHN-EO-CAELIF2655 .

Morocco • 1 ♀; between Boulemane and Midelt; 11.VII.1965; M. Descamps; MNHN-EO-CAELIF9125 • 1♂; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF 9126 .

NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — None.

HABITAT. — Rocky soil near Halfa bushes ( Krauss & Vosseler 1896).

Figures

FIG. 71. — Habitus of Paraeuryparyphes quadridentatus (Brisout de Barneville, 1852): A, B, female from Boulemane, Morocco, dorsal view (A), lateral view (B); C, D, male from Boulemane, Morocco, dorsal view (C), lateral view (D). Scale bars: 1 cm. Photos: H. Tlili.