A comprehensive analysis of Morales Agacino entomological expeditions in Spanish Sahara 1941 - 1946, with an updated checklist of collection sites and collected insect species (Insecta Polyneoptera, Hymenoptera, Coleoptera Carabidae and Tenebrionidae)
Author
Louveaux, Alain
Vergniaud, 75013 Paris (France) alain. louveaux @ orange. fr (corrresponding author)
louveaux@orange.fr
Author
Garcin, Annie
9, avenue des Pères Blancs, 13380 Plan de Cuques (France) annie. garcin 2 @ wanadoo. fr
annie.garcin2@wanadoo.fr
Author
Desutter-Grandcolas, Laure
Institut de Systématique, Évolution et Biodiversité (ISYEB), Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Sorbonne Université, CNRS UPMC EPHE UA, 57 rue Cuvier, case postale 50, 75231 Paris Cedex 05 (France) laure. desutter-grandcolas @ mnhn. fr
grandcolas@mnhn.fr
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Zoosystema
2022
2022-05-17
44
10
227
258
journal article
56533
10.5252/zoosystema2022v44a10
2e614959-d0de-42f2-9bd8-cd6fd1ecb07f
1638-9387
6573792
urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:5E9E2AB1-9330-4D2A-976D-26DFDA8FA1DD
DATA FOR
ORTHOPTERA
One of us (AL) focused on
Orthoptera Acridomorpha.The
data summarized in Table 4 were used to produce distributional maps by species or groups of species, which proved reasonably accurate to interpret their distributions according to environmental data, or confirmed taxonomic hypotheses. 33 species of Caelifera have been recorded (Table 4). Among these, three Pamphaginae Burmeister, 1840, viz.
Paracinipe exarata
(Bolivar, 1936)
,
Glauvarovia mendizabali
Morales Agacino, 1945
and
Glauia saharae
Morales Agacino & Descamps, 1968
, were found to be the southernmost of the 83 species of Pamphaginae known from North Africa (
Morales Agacino & Descamps 1968
;
Descamps 1970
;
Chobanov & Massa 2022
). All the four genera of
Dericorythidae
known from North Africa are present in the studied area, including one genus represented by a single endemic species,
Bolivaremia domenechi
Morales Agacino, 1949
. In contrast to the many species originating from the Mediterranean border of Sahara, only three taxa,
Anacridium melanorhodon melanorhodon
(Walker, 1829)
,
Poekilocerus bufonius hieroglyphicus
(Klug, 1829)
and
Sphingonotus canariensis
Saussure, 1884
, are Sahelian species that extend occasionally to Rio de Oro.
Morales Agacino (1945a)
collected eight nymphs of
Poekilocerus bufonius hieroglyphicus
, 1 ♂ and 1 ♀ nymphs (15. IV.1943) at Leglat = Derramán and 6 larvae (14.XII.1941) close to Zug. One of us (AG) observed also one larva at Derramán, west of Aousserd (22°36’N, 14°28’W; 360 m, 19-20. XII.2017). Such breeding, in localities where the obligatory host plant, i.e.,
Calotropis procera
Aïton, 1811
, has not been found, is unlikely to result in fertile population (
Popov & McE Kevan 1979
).
We detailed below some of the questions that the inventories of Morales Agacino could help reanalysing, namely the synonymy between
Pamphagulus mateui
Morales Agacino, 1949
and
Pamphagulus vicinus
Ramme, 1931
(Dericorythidae)
; the type locality of
Bolivaremia domenechi
Morales Agacino, 1949
; the location of Aserifa, a paratype locality of
Bolivaremia domenechi laevigata
Morales Agacino, 1949
; and the extension of the distributions of pamphagid grasshoppers in the Atlantic Sahara as documented by Morales Agacino collections.