Calliptamus wattenwylianus ( Pantel, 1896 )

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 : 616-617

Calliptamus wattenwylianus ( Pantel, 1896)

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Caloptenus italicus var. wattenwyliana Pantel, 1896: 70 .

Calliptamus italicus var. wattenwylianus – Jacobson & Bianchi 1902: 317.

Calliptamus wattenwylianus – Werner 1932: 173. — Massa & Rizzo 1998: 284.

Calliptamus wattenwylianus wattenwylianus – Baroni et al. 2018: 6.

TYPE SPECIMENS. — Spain • ♂, ♀; lectotype, paralectotype ( Defaut 2012); Sitio ; MNHN .

DISTRIBUTION. — Only present along the Mediterranean Coast from North Africa ( Jago 1963), France ( Chopard 1951), Spain ( Heller et al. 1998), Italy ( Baroni et al. 2018).

DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Tamerza ( Massa & Rizzo 1998).

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Tunisia • 1 ♂; Kasserine, Laayoune ; 5.VIII.2016; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4660 • 1 ♂; Gafsa, Sened ; 17.VII.2016; H.Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7029 .

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

HABITAT. — Calliptamus wattenwylianus almost always coexists in the same habitat with Calliptamus barbarus barbarus (H. Tlili, pers. obs).

DNA SEQUENCES. — We generated a new sequence for the mitochondrial marker COI (675 bp) ( Table 4 ).

Figures

FIG. 9. — Habitus of Calliptamus wattenwylianus Pantel, 1896: A, B, female from Kasserine, Tunisia, dorsal view (A), lateral view (B); C, D, male from Kasserine, Tunisia, dorsal view (C), lateral view (D). Scale bars: 1 cm. Photos: H. Tlili.