Dericorys millierei Bonnet & Finot, 1884

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 : 705

Dericorys millierei Bonnet & Finot, 1884

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Dericorys millierei Bonnet & Finot, 1884 : XXVII; 1885: 223. — Finot 1895: 529. — Vosseler 1902a: 394. — Chopard 1943: 391. — Massa & Rizzo 1998: 284.

TYPE SPECIMEN. — Algeria • ♂; holotype; around Oran; MNHN .

DISTRIBUTION. — Morocco ( Bolívar 1914, Badih & Pascual 1998); Algeria ( Mahloul et al. 2016); Tunisia ( Tlili et al. 2019a); Libya ( Massa 2009); Palestinian territories ( Abusarhan et al. 2017).

DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA.— Gabes, Djerba ( Bonnet & Finot 1885; Finot 1895); Gafsa ( Vosseler 1902a); Meknassy ( Chopard 1943); Tamerza ( Massa & Rizzo 1998).

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Algeria • 1♂; holotype; Oran; 11.VIII.1880; E. Bonnet & A. Finot; MNHN-EO-CAELIF173 .

Tunisia • 1♀; Tozeur, Gouifla ; 31.III.2016; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4717 • 1 ♂; Mednine, Ben Guerdane ; 19.IX.2017; M. Ben Chouikha; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7072 .

NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Tozeur, Gouifla.

HABITAT. — Salty land near sebkha ( Mahloul et al. 2016).

REMARKS. — During our prospection we found just one specimen of D. millierei in a desert steppe sharing the same habitat and feeding on the same plant as D. albidula , Pamphagulus bodenheimeri dumonti Uvarov, 1929 ( Dericorythidae : Dericorythinae ), Tuarega insignis ( Lucas, 1851) ( Pamphagidae : Thrinchinae ), Sphingonotus (Neosphingonotus) paradoxus ( Acrididae : Oedipodinae ), Sphingonotus (Sphingonotus) savignyi ( Acrididae : Oedipodinae ) and S. S. rubescens rubescens ( Acrididae : Oedipodinae ).

Figures

FIG. 60. — Habitus of Dericorys millierei Bonnet & Finot,1884: A, B, female from Tozeur,Tunisia,dorsal view (A), lateral view (B); C, D, male from Mednine, Tunisia, dorsal view (C), lateral view (D). Scale bars: 1 cm. Photos: H. Tlili.