1Department of Biology, Laboratory of Functional Ecology and Environmental Engineering, FST-Fez, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, 2202, Route d’Imouzzer, Fez, Morocco
2Agricultural Zoology Unit, Ecole Nationale d’Agriculture de Meknès, BPS 40, Meknès, Morocco
3Laboratory of Bioresources, Biotechnology, Ethnopharmacology and Health, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy Oujda, University Mohammed First, Oujda
*Email: nabil.radouane@usmba.ac.ma (corresponding author): ORCID ID: 0000-0002-1173-470X
Online published on 4 April, 2025.
Located between the coast and the desert, the Moroccan Middle Atlas Mountains are strongly affected by these two climatic averages, resulting in very complex and diverse biodiversity patterns in Orthoptera fauna. This instability in locusts (Orthoptera, Acrididae), is mainly due to the ambiguity of definitions for each level of classification above the species level. These changes necessitate a review of the literature on the Moroccan Middle Atlas locust orthopterans. This review focuses on the suborder Caelifera, encountered at five stations in the Middle Atlas, and includes the three families of Acridoidea, of which the Acrididae is the most diversified. A comparative reading of the various taxa frequently met with and their recent systematic controversies are reviewed herein.
Middle Atlas, Acrodoîdea, Acrididae, Morocco, Mountains, Taxonomy, Faunistics, Morphology, Review, Checklist, Speices diversity
