Checklist and taxonomic updates in grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Caelifera) of central and southwestern Tunisia with new records and a key for species identification

IF 0.9 3区生物学 Q3 ZOOLOGY

Zoosystema Pub Date : 2020-12-15 DOI:10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a31

H. Tlili, K. Abdellaoui, Ioana C. Chintauan-Marquier, Manel Ben Chouikha, Abdelhamid Moussi, M. Ammar, L. Desutter‐Grandcolas

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Since the publication of Chopard's 1943 book, Les Orthoptéroides d'Afrique du Nord, the diversity of Orthoptera in Tunisia has not been studied or prospected except for 20 publications. Furthermore, the classification of Orthoptera has changed since 1943 due to taxonomic and phylogenetic advances. To allow a full survey of the Tunisian grasshopper fauna, it is thus necessary first to correctly survey the biological diversity of grasshoppers in Tunisia, and second to have an updated taxonomic reference in order to describe this diversity and compare it with the grasshopper faunas in the other countries of the Maghreb. In the present paper, we propose an updated checklist and a key for the identification of Tunisian grasshoppers, based primarily on field sampling in central and southwestern Tunisia, and literature data for other Tunisian areas. Each species is documented with habitus photographs, geographical distribution, and type of habitat. In total, for the prospected areas, 75 species of Caelifera belonging to five families and 43 genera are listed, while 83 species were recorded up to now for the whole Tunisia. Among these 75 species, seven are newly recorded for Tunisia, i.e., Sphodromerus decoloratus Finot, 1894, Egnatioides coerulans (Krauss, 1893), Dociostaurus biskrensis Moussi & Petit, 2014, Aiolopus puissanti Defaut, 2005, Hilethera aeolopoides (Uvarov, 1922), Leptopternis rothschildi Bolívar, 1913, and Tenuitarsus angustus (Blanchard, 1836); and one species is newly recorded for central and southwestern Tunisia, i.e., Oedipoda fuscocincta fuscocincta Lucas, 1849. We also confirm the presence of two species that were only tentatively recorded in Tunisia, i.e., Oedaleus senegalensis (Krauss, 1877) and Stenohippus mundus (Walker, 1871). DNA sequences (COI, ND2 and H3) are presented for 26 taxa, as a first step towards barcoding all Tunisian caeliferan taxa.

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突尼斯中部和西南部蝗虫(直翅目:蝗虫科)名录和分类学更新:新记录和种鉴定关键

自1943年Chopard的著作《Les orthoptides d’afrique du Nord》出版以来，除了20篇出版物外，突尼斯直翅目的多样性尚未得到研究或展望。此外，自1943年以来，由于分类学和系统发育的进展，直翅目的分类发生了变化。因此，为了对突尼斯蚱蜢动物群进行全面调查，首先有必要正确调查突尼斯蚱蜢的生物多样性，其次有一个更新的分类参考，以便描述这种多样性并将其与马格里布其他国家的蚱蜢动物群进行比较。在本文中，我们提出了一份更新的清单和识别突尼斯蚱蜢的关键，主要基于突尼斯中部和西南部的实地抽样，以及突尼斯其他地区的文献数据。每个物种都记录了栖息地照片、地理分布和栖息地类型。在调查区，已记录到Caelifera属5科43属75种，突尼斯全国已记录到Caelifera属83种。75种中，突尼斯新记录的有7种:Sphodromerus decoloratus Finot, 1894年，Egnatioides coerulans (Krauss, 1893)， dociostus biskrensis Moussi & Petit, 2014年，Aiolopus puissanti Defaut, 2005年，Hilethera aeolopoides (Uvarov, 1922)， Leptopternis rothschild Bolívar, 1913年，Tenuitarsus angustus (Blanchard, 1836);突尼斯中部和西南部新记录1种，即fuscocincta fuscocincta Lucas, 1849。我们还确认了两个仅在突尼斯暂时记录的物种的存在，即Oedaleus senegalensis (Krauss, 1877)和Stenohippus mundus (Walker, 1871)。DNA序列(COI, ND2和H3)为26个分类群提出，作为条形码所有突尼斯的caeliferan分类群的第一步。

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Zoosystema 生物-动物学

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2.00

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期刊介绍： Zoosystema is a fast-track and peer-reviewed journal, devoted to the inventory, analysis and interpretation of animal biodiversity. It publishes, in French or English, original results of zoological research, particularly in systematics and related fields: comparative, functional and evolutionary morphology, phylogeny, biogeography, taxonomy and nomenclature, etc. All articles published in Zoosystema are compliant with the different nomenclatural codes. A copyright assignment will be signed by the authors before publication.