Helioscirtus gracilis Vosseler 1902

Helioscirtus gracilis Vosseler, 1902 * (Fig. 35) Helioscirtus gracilis Vosseler, 1902a: 368. — Chopard 1943: 322. Vosseleria gracilis – Uvarov 1923d: 30. TYPE SPECIMEN. — Tunisia • ♀; holotype; Gafsa; SMNS. DISTRIBUTION. — Tunisia (Vosseler 1902a). DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Gafsa (Vosseler 1902a); Nefzaoua (Chopard 1943). MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Tunisia • 1 ♂; Kebili, Nefzaoua; IV.1884; E. Bonnet; MNHN-EO-CAELIF481. NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — None. HABITAT. — Unknown. REMARKS. — This species has never been recorded since Vosseler (1902a); based on known localities to date, seems endemic to Tunisia.
Published as part of Tlili, Haithem, Abdellaoui, Khemais, Chintauan-Marquier, Ioana C., Chouikha, Manel Ben, Moussi, Abdelhamid, Ammar, Mohamed & Desutter-Grandcolas, Laure, 2020, Checklist and taxonomic updates in grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Caelifera) of central and southwestern Tunisia with new records and a key for species identification, pp. 607-738 in Zoosystema 42 (31) on page 623, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a31, http://zenodo.org/record/4382361
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