Aiolopus strepens strepens ( Latreille, 1804 )

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 strepens strepens ( Latreille, 1804)

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Acrydium strepens Latreille, 1804: 154 .

Acridium vittatum Brullé, 1840: 78 . — Finot 1895: 422.

Aiolopus strepens – Fieber 1853: 100. — Chopard 1943: 287.

Epacromia strepens – Bolívar 1876: 348. — Bonnet & Finot 1885: 214. — Finot 1895: 422. — Vosseler 1902a: 354.

Aiolopus strepens strepens – Massa et al. 2012: 445.

TYPE SPECIMEN. — France • ♂; neotype ( Hollis 1968); Dordogne ; NHM .

DISTRIBUTION. — The distribution of this species is covers southern Europe, North Africa, and western Asia ( Willemse et al. 2018).

DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Gabes ( Bonnet & Finot 1885; Finot 1895); Bou Hedma Mountain ( Chopard 1943).

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Tunisia • 1 ♂; Gafsa, El Guetar ; 30.IV.2017; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4681 • 1 ♀; Tozeur, Souani Ali ; 31.III.2016; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4680 • 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7440 .

Algeria • 1 ♀; around Algiers; 1898; J. Kunckel; MNHN-EO-CAELIF9110 .

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

HABITAT. — Slightly-wet places, grassland, oases ( Chopard 1943).

Figures

FIG. 33. — Habitus of Aiolopus strepens strepens (Latreille, 1804): A, B, female from Algiers, Algeria, 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.