Calliptamus barbarus barbarus ( Costa, 1836 )

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 : 616

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a31
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scientific name	Calliptamus barbarus barbarus ( Costa, 1836 )
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Calliptamus barbarus barbarus ( Costa, 1836)

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Acridium barbarum Costa, 1836: 13 View in CoL .

Calliptamus ictericus Serville, 1838: 689 .

Caloptenus siculus Burmeister, 1838: 639 View in CoL .

Caloptenus barbarus – Fischer 1853: 380.

Caloptenus discoidalis Walker, 1870a: 686 View in CoL .

Caloptenus italicus var. barbarus – De Bormans 1879: 407.

Caloptenus italicus var. sicula – De Bormans 1884: 180. — Bonnet & Finot 1885: 235. — Finot 1895: 547. — Vosseler 1902a: 395.

Caloptenus italicus var. minimus Ivanov, 1888: 351 View in CoL .

Calliptamus siculis – Willemse 1936: 102.

Calliptamus barbarus – Salfi 1937: 5.

Calliptamus ictericus chopardi Grassé & Hollande, 1945: 49 .

Calliptamus barbarus monspelliensis Grassé & Hollande, 1945: 49 .

Calliptamus barbarus nanus Mistshenko, 1951: 273 .

Calliptamus barbarus barbarus – Ramme 1951: 311.

TYPE SPECIMEN. — Italy • ♂; neotype ( Jago 1963); South Apulia, Maglie ; NHM .

DISTRIBUTION. — This species is well-known in countries around the Mediterranean Sea, and its distribution extends far into Palearctic Asia ( Willemse et al. 2018).

DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Gafsa, Gabes ( Vosseler 1902a); Kerkennah Island, Djerba ( Bonnet & Finot 1885; Finot 1895).

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Tunisia • 1 ♂; Kasserine, Laayoune ; 5.VIII.2016; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4658 • 3♂, 4 ♀; same data; INAT • 1 ♂ 1 ♀; same data; ISA-CM • 1♀; Kasserine, Sbeitla ; 5.VIII.2016; H. Tlili; INAT • 1 ♀; Gafsa Sened ; 17.VII.2016; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4659 .

NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Kasserine, Laayoune, Sbeitla; Gafsa, Sened, El Guetar.

HABITAT. — Frequently found in old farms, grassland, and dry area (H. Tlili, pers. obs).

REMARKS. — The genus Calliptamus showed significant pullulations in Kasserine, which resulted in enormous damage, especially on apple and olive trees (H. Tlili, pers. obs).

DNA SEQUENCES. — We generated new sequences for two markers: COI (654 bp) and ND2 (459 bp) ( Table 4 View TABLE ).

NHM	United Kingdom, London, The Natural History Museum [formerly British Museum (Natural History)]

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Orthoptera
SubOrder	Caelifera
Family	Baissogryllidae
SubFamily	Calliptaminae
Genus	Calliptamus