Tuarega insignis (Lucas 1851)
- Dataset
- Checklist and taxonomic updates in grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Caelifera) of central and southwestern Tunisia with new records and a key for species identification
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Orthoptera
- family
- Pamphagidae
- genus
- Tuarega
- species
- Tuarega insignis
biology_ecology
HABITAT. — Arid and desertic environments (Massa & Rizzo 1998).
description
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distribution
DISTRIBUTION. — Morocco (Chopard 1943); Algeria (Zergoun et al. 2018); Tunisia (Massa & Rizzo 1998); Libya (Massa 1998); Mauritania, Chad (Mestre & Chiffaud 2006). DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — The Great Chotts of Kebili (Chopard 1943); Arid and desert environments (Massa & Rizzo 1998); Sfax, Sidi Mansour; Gafsa; Gabes: Bled Segui; Bou Hedma mountain (Massa 2013).
distribution
NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Gafsa, Sened, El Guetar; Tozeur, Gouifla, Degache; Kebili, Essagui.
materials_examined
DNA SEQUENCES. — We generated a new sequence for the mitochondrial marker COI (658 bp) (Table 4).
materials_examined
MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Tunisia • 1 ♂; Kebili, Essagui; 24. VI. 2017; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF 4727 • 1 ♀; Tozeur, Degache; 29. IV. 2017; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF 4728 • 1 ♀; same data; INAT • 1 ♂; Gafsa, Ben Younes Mountain; 26. IV. 2019; A. Ahmadi; MNHN-EO-CAELIF 7037 • 3 larva; Gafsa, Sened; 16. I. 2016; O. Hamed; INAT.
materials_examined
TYPE SPECIMEN. — Algeria • ♀; type probably lost (H. Tlili, pers. obs.); Kef Oum Teboul; MNHN.
Name
- Homonyms
- Tuarega insignis (Lucas 1851)