Calephorus compressicornis (Latreille, 1804)
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34. Calephorus compressicornis (Latreille, 1804)
Diagnosis: This is a small green or brown grasshopper species readily recognized by its laterally compressed antennae, conical pointed head profile, complex of nodules on various veins of the forewing used for song, and characteristics flight crepitation.
Habitats: The species is found in short grass and irrigated fields. It is graminivorous. In Egypt it has been recorded being found on grasses as well as among vegetables and field crops.
Material examined: Al Shati Region: Idri , 1 ♂, 1 ♀, on grass, 16.i.1995 ; Tarut , 1♂, 3♀, on grass, 11.i.1995 .
Localities: Tripolitania: Ain Zara, Engilla, Tripoli; Fezzan: Idri, Tarot.
Distribution: Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tibesti, Senegal, Sudan, Ethiopia, Congo, Madagascar, S. Europe.
Remarks: Earlier recorded from Troplitania by Werner (1908 a), Ghigi (1913), I. Bolivar (1915), and Salfi (1929).
Bolivar, I. (1915) Extension de la fauna paleartica en Marruecos. Trab Museo Ciencias Naturales Madrid (Series Zoologie), no. 10, 83 pp.
Ghigi, A. (1913) Materiali per lo studio della fauna libica. Memoirs of the Royal Accademia Bologna, (6) 10, 261 - 2, 273 - 4.
Salfi, M. (1929) Contribuzioni alla conoscenza degli ortotten libici. 5. Sualcune specie poco note di Acrididae di Tripolitania e su Rhacocleis dernensis Salfi. Memoriedella Societa Entomologica Italiana, 6 (1927), 150 - 164.
Werner, F. (1908) Zur kenntniss der Orthopteren-fauna von Tripolis und Barka, Nach der sammlung von Dr. Bruno Klaptocz im Jahre 1906. Zoologische Jahrbucher Systematik, 27, 83 - 143; 123, 363 - 404.
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