Eyprepocnemis plorans plorans ( Charpentier, 1825 )

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 : 618-619

Eyprepocnemis plorans plorans ( Charpentier, 1825)

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Gryllus plorans Charpentier, 1825: 134 .

Acridium plorans – Costa 1836: 7.

Eyprepocnemis plorans – Fieber 1853: 98.

Euprepocnemis plorans – Stål 1876: 16. — Finot 1895: 541. — Chopard 1943: 407.

Eyprepocnemis plorans plorans – La Greca 1948: 176.

TYPE SPECIMEN. — Portugal • unspecified; unknown repository .

DISTRIBUTION. — This species is widely distributed around the Mediterranean Basin extending eastwards into Palearctic Asia ( Willemse et al. 2018).

DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Sfax, Gabes, Bou Hedma Mountain, Nefta ( Chopard 1943); Oases of Djerid ( Finot 1895).

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Tunisia • 1 ♂; Tozeur, Souani Ali ; 31.III.2016; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4665 • 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4666 .

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

HABITAT. — This species occurs in humid grasslands and oases (H. Tlili, pers. obs).

DNA SEQUENCES. — We generated a new sequence for the mitochondrial marker COI (656 bp) ( Table 4 ).

Figures

FIG. 18. — Habitus of Eyprepocnemis plorans plorans (Charpentier, 1825): A, B, female from Tozeur, Tunisia, dorsal view (A), lateral view (B); C, D, male from Tozeur, Tunisia, dorsal view (C), lateral view (D). Scale bars: 1 cm. Photos: H. Tlili.