Mioscirtus wagneri wagneri ( Eversmann, 1859 )

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 : 624-625

Mioscirtus wagneri wagneri ( Eversmann, 1859) *

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Oedipoda wagneri Eversmann, 1859: 145 .

Scintharista wagneri – Saussure 1884: 121.

Mioscirtus wagneri – Saussure 1888: 36. — Chopard 1943: 293.

Scintharista (Mioscirtus) wagneri – Finot 1895: 448.

Mioscirtus wagneri wagneri – Huang et al. 2013: 555 .

TYPE SPECIMEN. — Turkmenistan • ♀; holotype; Firiuza ; ZIN .

DISTRIBUTION. — North Africa ( Chopard 1943); Egypt ( Haggag et al. 2008); Iran ( Hodjat et al. 2018); China, Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan ( Huang et al. 2013).

DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Tozeur ( Chopard 1943).

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Algeria • 1♂; Oran; 1.X.1954; H. Maurel; MNHN-EO-CAELIF498 • 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF499 .

NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — None.

HABITAT. — This species lives in an environment characterized by halophilic plants ( Moussi et al. 2011).

Figures

FIG. 40. — Habitus of Mioscirtus wagneri wagneri (Eversmann, 1859): A, B, female from Oran, Algeria, dorsal view (A), lateral view (B); C, D, male from Oran, Algeria, dorsal view (C), lateral view (D). Scale bars: 1 cm. Photos: S. Poulin.