Tmethis cisti (Fabricius, 1787)

Ünal, Mustafa, 2016, Pamphagidae (Orthoptera: Acridoidea) from the Palaearctic Region: taxonomy, classification, keys to genera and a review of the tribe Nocarodeini I. Bolívar, Zootaxa 4206 (1), pp. 1-223 : 45

Tmethis cisti (Fabricius, 1787)

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Material examined. As Tmethis cisti cisti (Fabricius, 1787) : ALGERIA: Süd-Algier , Oase Biskra, winter 0 8, 1♂ (leg. J. Steinbach) (AİBÜEM) ; Algier, El Kantara , 6–7.1932, 2♂ (leg. T. Zekri) ( MfN) ; Algeria, Djelfa, 7.1926, 1♀ (leg. A. Balachovsky) ( NHMUK) ; Algeria, road to Laghouat, near El Kheneg , 25– 26.5.1942, 1♂, 3♀ (leg. M. N. Korsakoff) (det Ünal as Tmethis clavelii ) ( NHMUK) ; TUNISIA: Nr. Gafsa, 8.4.1966, 1♂, 1♀ (leg. G. Popov) ( NHMUK). As Tmethis cisti gracilis ( Saussure, 1888) : LIBYA: Tripolis , 2♂, 2♀ (leg. S. Quedenfeldt) ( MfN); Tripolitania, Ain Zara, 6 mls S.E. of Tripoli, 2.4.1946, 1♂, 1♀, 23.3.1946, 1♂, 1♀, 1♀ nymph ; Ain Zara , 18.4.1946, 1♀ ; Tripolitania , 1946, 1♂, 1♀ ; Tripolitania, Suani ben Adem , 8.4.1946, 1♂, 1♀ ; Tripolitania, Tefren , 10 mls S.W. of Tripoli, 14.4.1946, 1♀, 1♀ nymph ; Tripolitania, Castel Verde , 30 mls E, SE of Tripoli, 29.3.1946, 1♂ ; Tripolitania, El Azizia , 27 mls S., S.W. of Tripoli, 4.4.1946, 1♂ ; Tripolitania, Castel Benito , 7.4.1946, 1♂ ; Tripolitania , Nr. Nalut, 150 mls W., S.W. of Tripoli, 24.4.1946, 2♂ (all leg. E.S. Brown) (all in NHMUK).

Remarks. The specimens from El Kantara belong to this species by the shape of epiphallus, but it is similar to T. maroccanus Bolívar, 1908 by the narrow and sharp hind margin of pronotum; it is also near to T. pulchripennis (Serville, 1838) by the short and thick tibial spurs. The specimens from El Kheneg identified as T. cisti clavelii Lucas, 1851 by me in the NHMUK, which is now a synonym of T. cisti ( Massa 2013: 438) .

The shape of the dark band of hind wing in T. cisti gracilis is distinctly short and wide (it is very narrow and long in T. cisti cisti ), the size is smaller in T. cisti gracilis , but this subspecies was synonymized by Massa (2013: 438). Here materials are listed separately for further study.

Figures

FIGURES 205 – 220. Habitus. 205 – 206 Eremocharis ancestralis, 205 male holotype; 206 female paratype. 207 – 208 Eremocharis bampura bampura, 207 male paratype; 208 female paratype. 209 – 210 Eremocharis bampura khorasana, 209 male paratype; 210 female paratype. 211 – 212 Dhofaria splendens, 211 male paratype; 212 female paratype. 213 Tuarega insignis, male. 214 – 215 Tmethis pulchripennis (asiaticus), 214 male; 215 female. 216 Tmethis cisti (gracilis). 217 – 218 Atrichotmethis semenovi, 217 male; 218 female. 219 – 220 Melanotmethis fuscipennis fuscipennis, 219 male; 220 female.