{"title":"New records and a checklist of the Acridomorpha of the Aures, East Algeria (Orthoptera: Caelifera)","authors":"Madjed Aggouni, Abdelhamid Moussi, Aicha Medjadba","doi":"10.1080/00305316.2023.2262462","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTA checklist of the Acridomorpha fauna of the Aures region in Algeria has been established using a combination of the available literature and new collections carried out from 2018 to 2021. This list is the first for the region and includes 61 species belonging to 35 genera and four families: Acrididae (25 genera, 44 species), Dericorythidae (1 genus, 1 species), Pamphagidae (8 genera, 14 species) and Pyrgomorphidae (1 genus, 2 species). The new data indicate that the subfamily Oedipodinae of the family Acrididae is dominant (34.43%), while the genus Sphingonotus comprises the largest number of species (6 species). Twenty eight species have been recorded for the first time in this region, including Stenobothrus palpalis and a species closely resembling Gomphocerippus atlasi, which are new records for the Algerian fauna. The presence of three species was confirmed in the region. The work provides a list of species, information on their geographical distribution and insight into various synusial assemblages. Nevertheless, despite four years of survey efforts during several trips around the region, the list of species provided here is not exhaustive, rather only preliminary.KEYWORDS: GrasshopperStenobothrus palpalisfaunisticssurveymountainshabitat AcknowledgmentsWe are grateful to the anonymous reviewers and editors for critical reviews and valuable comments on previous versions of the manuscript. We thank Dr. Rachida Hafayed for his help in making the sampling localities maps.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).","PeriodicalId":19728,"journal":{"name":"Oriental Insects","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2023-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Oriental Insects","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00305316.2023.2262462","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"ENTOMOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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ABSTRACTA checklist of the Acridomorpha fauna of the Aures region in Algeria has been established using a combination of the available literature and new collections carried out from 2018 to 2021. This list is the first for the region and includes 61 species belonging to 35 genera and four families: Acrididae (25 genera, 44 species), Dericorythidae (1 genus, 1 species), Pamphagidae (8 genera, 14 species) and Pyrgomorphidae (1 genus, 2 species). The new data indicate that the subfamily Oedipodinae of the family Acrididae is dominant (34.43%), while the genus Sphingonotus comprises the largest number of species (6 species). Twenty eight species have been recorded for the first time in this region, including Stenobothrus palpalis and a species closely resembling Gomphocerippus atlasi, which are new records for the Algerian fauna. The presence of three species was confirmed in the region. The work provides a list of species, information on their geographical distribution and insight into various synusial assemblages. Nevertheless, despite four years of survey efforts during several trips around the region, the list of species provided here is not exhaustive, rather only preliminary.KEYWORDS: GrasshopperStenobothrus palpalisfaunisticssurveymountainshabitat AcknowledgmentsWe are grateful to the anonymous reviewers and editors for critical reviews and valuable comments on previous versions of the manuscript. We thank Dr. Rachida Hafayed for his help in making the sampling localities maps.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).
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Oriental Insects is an international, peer-reviewed journal devoted to the publication of original research articles and reviews on the taxonomy, ecology, biodiversity and evolution of insects and other land arthropods of the Old World and Australia. Manuscripts referring to Africa, Australia and Oceania are highly welcomed. Research papers covering the study of behaviour, conservation, forensic and medical entomology, urban entomology and pest control are encouraged, provided that the research has relevance to Old World or Australian entomofauna. Precedence will be given to more general manuscripts (e.g. revisions of higher taxa, papers with combined methodologies or referring to larger geographic units). Descriptive manuscripts should refer to more than a single species and contain more general results or discussion (e.g. determination keys, biological or ecological data etc.). Laboratory works without zoogeographic or taxonomic reference to the scope of the journal will not be accepted.