Finotia spinicollis Bonnet, 1884

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, Zoosystema 42 (31), pp. 607-738 : 706

Finotia spinicollis Bonnet, 1884 *

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Finotia spinicollis Bonnet, 1884: 548 .

TYPE SPECIMEN. — Tunisia • ♀; holotype; Bir Arrach ; MNHN .

DISTRIBUTION. — Known only from the original type material. According to Massa (2013), this species is endemic to centralTunisia.

DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Gafsa, Sfax ( Bonnet 1884).

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Tunisia • 1♀; holotype; Bir Arrach, 1884; E. Bonnet; MNHN-EO-CAELIF239 • 1 ♂; Bir Arrach , 1884; E. Bonnet; MNHN-EO-CAELIF240 • 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF 241 • 1 ♂; Sfax, 1856; E. Ducouret; MNHN-EO-CAELIF2069 .

NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — We made several surveys specifically for this species specifically, following the paths of the past collectors, but we did not find it.

HABITAT. — Finotia spinicollis prefers dry habitats ( Chopard 1943).

REMARKS. — The last collected specimens of this species are those of Bonnet (1884).

Figures

FIG. 65. — Habitus of Finotia spinicollis Bonnet, 1884: A, B, female type from Sfax, Tunisia, dorsal view (A), lateral view (B); C, D, male from Sfax, Tunisia, dorsal view (C), lateral view (D). Scale bars: 1 cm. Photos: S. Poulin.