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Sphingonotus (Sphingonotus) lucasii Saussure 1888

  • 1. Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science of Tunis, University Tunis El Manar, 2092 El Manar Tunis (Tunisia); Laboratory of Bioagressors and Integrated Protection in Agriculture (BPIA), National Institute of Agronomy of Tunisia, University of Cartage, 43 Avenue Charles Nicolle, Tunis 1082 (Tunisia) and Institut de Systématique, Évolution et Biodiversité (ISYEB), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, CNRS UPMC EPHE UA, 57 rue Cuvier, case postale 50, 75231 Paris Cedex 05 (France) haithem. tlili @ fst. utm. tn / haithem. tlili @ mnhn. fr (corresponding author)
  • 2. Department of biological sciences and plants protection, Higher Agronomic Institute of Chott Mariem, Sousse University B. P 47, 4042 Chott Mériem Sousse-Tunis (Tunisia)
  • 3. Institut de Systématique, Évolution et Biodiversité (ISYEB), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, CNRS UPMC EPHE UA, 57 rue Cuvier, case postale 50, 75231 Paris Cedex 05 (France)
  • 4. Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences of Gabes, University of Gabes, Gabes (Tunisia) Laboratory of Livestock and wildlife, Arid Land Institute, Djorf Street, 4119 Medenine (Tunisia)
  • 5. Department of Nature and Life Sciences, University of Biskra, BP 145 RP, 07000 Biskra (Algeria)
  • 6. Laboratory of Bioagressors and Integrated Protection in Agriculture (BPIA), National Institute of Agronomy of Tunisia, University of Cartage, 43 Avenue Charles Nicolle, Tunis 1082 (Tunisia)
  • 7. Institut de Systématique, Évolution et Biodiversité (ISYEB), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, CNRS UPMC EPHE UA, 57 rue Cuvier, case postale 50, 75231 Paris Cedex 05 (France) * Last co-authors with equal rank

Description

Sphingonotus (Sphingonotus) lucasii Saussure, 1888

(Fig. 51)

Sphingonotus azurescens – Bonnet & Finot 1885: 214 (misidentification rectified by Chopard 1943: 313).

Sphingonotus scabriusculus var. lucasii Saussure, 1888: 83 – Finot 1895: 475.

Sphingonotus lucasii – Vosseler 1902a: 374. — Hollier 2012a: 251.

Sphingonotus lucasi – Bolívar 1915: 38. — Chopard 1943: 313.

Wernerella pachecoi dimidiata Bolívar, 1936: 404.

TYPE SPECIMENS. — Algeria • ♂, ♀; syntypes; MHNG.

DISTRIBUTION. — Morocco (Moussi et al. 2018); Algeria, Tunisia (Hollier 2012a).

DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Wide distribution in Tunisia (Finot 1895); Gafsa, Sfax, Graiba (Vosseler 1902a).

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Tunisia • 1 ♂; Gafsa, Sened; 17.VII.2017; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4705 • 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF 4706.

NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Gafsa, Sened.

HABITAT. — Sub desertic areas (H. Tlili, pers. obs.).

REMARKS. — A few specimens were collected from one locality only.

DNA SEQUENCES. We generated new sequences for two markers: COI (666 bp) and ND2 (457 bp) (Table 4).

Notes

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 703, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a31, http://zenodo.org/record/4382361

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References

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