Aiolopus puissanti Defaut, 2005

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 : 623

Aiolopus puissanti Defaut, 2005 **

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Aiolopus puissanti Defaut, 2005b: 105 .

TYPE SPECIMEN. — Morocco • ♂; holotype; Sidi Bou Knadel ; MNHN.

DISTRIBUTION. — France, Espagne, Morocco ( Defaut & Jaulin 2008); Portugal ( Pina et al. 2017); Algeria ( Zergoun et al. 2019); Iran ( Hodjat et al. 2018).

DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — None.

MATERIAL EXAMINED.— Morocco • 1♂; holotype; Sidi Bou Knadel; 1.XI.1981; B. Defaut; MNHN-EO-CAELIF472.

Tunisia • 1 ♂; Gafsa, Douwara ; 20.VII.2016; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF 4679 • 1 ♀; Gafsa, El Guetar ; 30.IV.2017; H. TliliMNHN-EO-CAELIF 7084 • 1♂; same data; 25.V.2017; MNHN-EO-CAELIF 7439 .

NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Gafsa, Douwara; Tozeur, Souani Ali.

HABITAT. — Aiolopus puissanti almost always coexists in the same habitat with Aiolopus strepens strepens (H. Tlili, pers. obs).

REMARKS. — The morphometric analysis of the North African specimens differs enough to distinguish the European specimens of A. thalassinus (Fabricius, 1871) as a different species ( Defaut 2005b; Defaut & Jaulin 2008).

Figures

FIG. 32. — Habitus of Aiolopus puissanti Defaut, 2005: A, B, female from Tozeur, Tunisia, dorsal view (A), lateral view (B); C, D, male from Gafsa, Tunisia, dorsal view (C), lateral view (D). Scale bars: 1 cm. Photos: H. Tlili.