Sphingoderus carinatus ( Saussure, 1888 )

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 : 626

Sphingoderus carinatus ( Saussure, 1888)

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Sphingonotus coerulans var. carinata Saussure, 1888: 79 .

Sphingonotus coerulans var. mecheriae Krauss, 1893 : XCV.

Sphingonotus mecheriae – Vosseler 1902a: 370 (misidentification).

Sphingonotus carinatus – Mistshenko 1936: 186. — Chopard 1943: 312.

Sphingoderus carinatus – Bey-Bienko 1950: 203. — Husemann et al. 2012.

TYPE SPECIMEN. — Algeria • ♀; holotype; Biskra; ZIN .

DISTRIBUTION. — Algeria ( Zergoun et al. 2019); Tunisia ( Moussi et al. 2018); Egypt ( Haggag et al. 2008).

DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Gabes, Gafsa, Bou Hedma ( Vosseler 1902a); Bou Hedma ( Husemann et al. 2012).

MATERIAL EXAMINED.— Tunisia • 1 ♂; Gafsa, Metkides ; 01.VI.2016; H.Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4697 • 1 ♂, 2♀; same data; INAT • 1♀; Tozeur, Degache ; 29.IV.2017; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4698 • 1 ♂; Kasserine, Sbeitela ; 25.VII.2017; M. Mahfoudhi; MNHN-EO-CAELIF 7089 • 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7090 • 1♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7091 • 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF 7092 • 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7093 • 1 ♀; same data; INAT .

NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Kasserine, Sbeitla; Gafsa, Metkides; Tozeur, Degach; Kebili, Essagui.

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

DNA SEQUENCES. — We generated a new sequence for the mitochondrial marker COI (651 bp) ( Table 4 ).

Figures

FIG. 46. — Habitus of Sphingoderus carinatus (Saussure, 1888): A, B, female from Tozeur,Tunisia, dorsal view (A), lateral view (B); C, D, male from Gafsa, Tunisia, dorsal view (C), lateral view (D). Scale bars: 1 cm. Photos: H. Tlili.