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 cisti clavelii Lucas, 1851 ] Material examined . Algeria : Boghar ( type locality), 5♂ , 6♀; Ain Sefra, 12♂ , 5♀ (MNCN). Described as species and afterwards considered a subspecies of T. cisti (Uvarov 1943) . According to Lucas (1851) main characteristics of this taxon are: trilobate prozona ( Figs. 32–33 , 40–41 ), long tegmina (more than abdomen) ( Figs. 40–41 , 54 ), hind wings just shorter than tegmina, pink-reddish inside with a central brown stripe (consisting of separated wide spots) just reaching half of the pink-reddish area. Three small spots are present on the fore border of the wing, above the brown area ( Fig. 54 ). Hind tibiae are yellow, as the inner side of femurs, that bear a brown spot inside, shorter than that of other populations. It has been cited only from Algeria (Lucas 1851, Krauss 1902) and has been considered by Saussure (1888) a possible variety of T. pulchripennis , by Chopard (1943) a synonym of T. pulchripennis , and by Uvarov (1943) a subspecies of T. cisti . Its distribution overlaps with that of T. cisti and T. pulchripennis and covers the western part of inner Algeria . Concerning its biometrics (cf. Table 1 ), they lie within the variability of T. cisti , as well as the pattern of hind wings colour. Therefore, I think that it could be treated as a synonym of T. cisti .