Pamphagidae (Orthoptera: Caelifera) of North Africa: key to genera and the annotated check-list of species Author Massa, Bruno text Zootaxa 2013 3700 3 435 475 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.3700.3.7 371f30c1-ff9d-4fde-9429-fc9d284caf03 1175-5326 249376 E3FA2E4B-DDF4-4FDB-8CF1-FFBA215D40CA [ Tmethis maroccanus hirtus Uvarov, 1943 ] Described from East Morocco and West Algeria (Colomb-Bechar), characterized by hind tibiae and the inside of hind femurs from bright-red to dark-red, and body and legs unusually covered by dense and long hairs. As we observed above, the genus Tmethis is very variable and the colour of hind tibiae cannot be used as diagnostic character; hairs also in some specimens may be denser than in others (e.g., T. cisti mozabiticus ). Additionally, some localities of hirtus cited by Uvarov (1943) (Talialit, Midelt) overlap with the distribution of maroccanus . For these reasons I consider T. maroccanus monotypic, with hirtus its synonym.