Pimelia grandis Klug, 1830
ssp. latastei (Sénac, 1884); mixta Koch

PIMELIINI 
Pimelia grandis

Distribution: Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Egypt, Sudan, Senegal, Ethiopia.
Tripolitania and Fazzan.

Tripolitania: Ghirza, 02/09/2002; south of Mizdah, 11/10/2002; Wadi Suf Ajjin, 15/08/2003.

Fazzan: Matkhendush (Messak Sattafet), 23/10/2002; Terhin (Messak Sattafet), 19/10/2001; Wadi I-n-Habeter, 23/10/2003; Esseyen (Ghat), 19/02/2002; Takarkiba, 07/01/2003.

P. grandis latastei. Not seen along the coast of Tripolitania, in the Jaffarah Plain and northern Jabal Nafusah. Common in Hamada al Hamra (Tripolitania) and in the oases and wadis of Fazzan.

Seems to be replaced by P. obsoleta in the Jeffarah Plain.

JCR 25/12/2003

Pimelia grandis
Pinned in a shrub by a shrike.