Pamphagidae (Orthoptera: Caelifera) of North Africa: key to genera and the annotated check-list of species
Author
Massa, Bruno
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Zootaxa
2013
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435
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3700.3.7
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Eunapiodes
Bolivar, 1907
(type-species:
Pamphagus granosus
Stål
)
Bolivar (1907) described this genus to separate it from
Euryparyphes
(formerly
Eunapius
); the name
Eunapiodes
just means “related to
Eunapius
”. Typical characters of this genus are the hind femurs with upper and lower borders laterally flattened and provided with tubercles, upper border constricted just before the genicular lobe, prosternal process bi-toothed, and pronotum keel not longitudinally furrowed. According to Descamps (1968) aedeagus valves have the shape with columnar keels, character that La Greca (1993) has used to include them within
Euryparyphini
. The revision of this genus by Descamps (1968) concluded that only one species,
E. granosus
, represented by five subspecies, is present in
Morocco
; this author presented a key to subspecies (only males), mainly based on femur and tibiae colour and on their mean size. He also described
E. granosus rungsi
from the North-West of Middle Atlas, characterized by inner border of hind femurs red or orange. In the MNCN I found three specimens from Ifrane (North of Azrou) identified by Escalera as
E. acutithorax
, and six specimens from Bou Angueur (actually Bou Anguer, South of Azrou), Middle Atlas, identified by Escalera as
E. pasquieri
. The comparison of the series of
E. acutithorax
(MNCN) with topotypic specimens of
E. ifranensis
from Ifrane (MNHN) consented to establish that
E. ifranensis
(Werner, 1932)
and
E. acutithorax
are the same taxon. In addition, the comparison of the
type
series of
E. granosus rungsi
(MNHN) with the series of
E. pasquieri
(MNCN) consented to establish that they belong to the same taxon. However, I was unable to find any reference where
E. acutithorax
and
E. pasquieri
were described; they are considered as
nomina dubia
by Eades
et al.
(2013).
I redraw the map performed by Descamps (1968), including all the localities known for each taxon (
Fig. 176
); populations till now considered as subspecies resulted to be allopatric, even if in the same geographic area of Middle Atlas. I also tried to elaborate a pair of figures with biometric data (
Figs. 174–175
showing total length versus pronotum length in males and females); it seems evident that
rungsi
and
atlantis
lie in the same area of graphs, less
granosus
and
latipes
, and
ifranensis
and
latipes
. This is less evident in the females, very difficult to separate without males, as pointed out by Descamps (1968).
E. granosus
and
E. latipes
may be recognized also by their mesosternal and metasternal spaces, clearly wider than long in
granosus
(
Fig. 172
), less in
latipes
(
Fig. 173
), which also shows a less raised pronotum (
Figs. 170–171
). Probably much material is needed, but I tentatively should consider the following valid taxa:
Eunapiodes granosus
(
Figs. 162–163
),
E. ifranensis
(
Figs. 164–165
),
E. latipes
(
Figs. 170–171
) and
E. atlantis
(
Figs. 166–167
), with
E. rungsi
its junior synonym.