Notopleura pygmaea Vosseler, 1902

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 : 618

Notopleura pygmaea Vosseler, 1902 *

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Notopleura pygmaea Vosseler, 1902a: 356 ; 1902b: 5. — Bolívar 1915: 34. — Chopard 1943: 280.

TYPE SPECIMEN. — Tunisia • ♀; holotype; South of Gabes; SMNS .

DISTRIBUTION. — Tunisia ( Vosseler 1902a, 1902b; Bolívar 1915; Chopard 1943.

DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Gabes ( Vosseler 1902a, b; Bolívar 1915; Chopard 1943).

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — None.

NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — None.

HABITAT. — According to Vosseler (1902a), Notopleura pygmaea occurs exclusively in desert environments.

REMARKS. — This species is endemic in Southern Tunisia and is recorded only from the original citation of Vosseler (1902a). It has been erroneously reported from Algeria by Moussi et al. (2014) in the place of misidentified Tenuitarsus angustus ( Pyrgomorphidae : Pyrgomorphinae ).

Figures

FIG. 16. — Body part of Notopleura pygmaea Vosseler,1902. Female from Gabes, Tunisia, head, pronotum and tegmina, dorsal view (after Vosseler 1902a). Scale bar: 1 cm.