Truxalis procera Klug, 1830

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 : 615-616

Truxalis procera Klug, 1830 *

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Truxalis procera Klug, 1830 : pl. 16 – Dirsh 1950 [1951]: 183.

TYPE SPECIMEN. — Saudi Arabia • unspecified; South Saudi Arabia ; unknown repository .

DISTRIBUTION. — Río de Oro, Mauritania, Algeria, Tunisia, Niger, Chad, Libya, Sudan, Eritrea, Somalia, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan ( Dirsh 1950 [1951]) and Saudi Arabia (El-Hawagry et al. 2013).

DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Nefta ( Dirsh 1950 [1951]).

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Mauritania • 1♂; Togba; 19.VI.1938; Mission d’Etudes de la Biologie des Acridiens ; MNHN-EO-CAELIF334 • 1 ♀; Rhat Atoui; 06.II.1937; Mission d’Études de la Biologie des Acridiens ; MNHN-EO-CAELIF335.

Niger • 1 ♀; Agadez; VIII.1949; L. Chopard; MNHN-EO-CAELIF9100.

Saudi Arabi • 1 ♂; North of Lith ; 27.III.1948; B. P. Uvarov; MNHN-EO-CAELIF9101 .

NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — None.

HABITAT. — Sandy Khor with shrubs (Maxwell-Darling 1934).

Figures

FIG. 6. — Habitus of Truxalis procera Klug, 1830: A, B, female from Agadez, Niger, dorsal view (A), lateral view (B); C, D, male from Lith, Saudi Arabia,dorsal view (C), lateral view (D). Scale bars: 1 cm. Photos: H. Tlili.