Duroniella lucasii ( Bolívar, 1881 )

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 : 615

Duroniella lucasii ( Bolívar, 1881)

( Fig. 4 )

Phleoba (Duronia) lucasii Bolívar, 1881: 502 .

Phleoba (Duronia) lucasi – Bonnet & Finot 1885: 213.

Duronia lucasi – Krauss 1890: 260.

Phleoba lucasi – Finot 1895: 417.

Duronia (Phleoba) lucasi – Vosseler 1902a: 354.

Duroniella lucasii – Kirby 1910: 140.

Duroniella lucasi – Salfi 1929: 151. — Chopard 1943: 259.

TYPE SPECIMEN. — Algeria • ♂; holotype; Oran; MNCN .

DISTRIBUTION. — North Africa ( Chopard 1943; Usmani 2008); Iran ( Hodjat et al. 2018).

DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Gabes ( Bonnet & Finot 1885; Vosseler 1902a); Kerkennah Island, Ksar el-Ahmar, Bled Thalah, Tozeur ( Bonnet & Finot 1885); Gafsa ( Vosseler 1902a); Kasserine ( Chopard 1943).

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Tunisia • 1 ♀; Tozeur, Souani Ali ; 31.III.2016; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4683 • 2 ♀; same data; INAT .

Morocco • 1 ♂; Maader Anziz; VIII.1987; Thewys; MNHN-EO-CAELIF529 .

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

HABITAT. — This species is found in irrigated fields and oases (H. Tlili, pers. obs).

REMARK. — Duroniella lucasii was recently moved by Popov et al. (2019) from the subfamily Oedipodinae to the subfamily Acridinae using many morphological and genital structures.

Figures

FIG. 4. — Habitus of Duroniella lucasii (Bolívar, 1881): A, B, female from Tozeur, Tunisia, dorsal view (A), lateral view (B). Photos: H. Tlili. C, D, male from Maader Anzi, Morocco, dorsal view (C), lateral view (D). Scale bar: 1 cm. Photos: S. Poulin.