Sphingonotus (Neosphingonotus) paradoxus, Bey-Bienko, 1948

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 : 702

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Sphingonotus (Neosphingonotus) paradoxus Bey-Bienko, 1948

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Sphingonotus paradoxus Bey-Bienko, 1948: 498 .

Pseudosphingonotus paradoxus View in CoL – Shumakov 1963: 160. — Johnsen 1985: 155.

Sphingonotus (Neosphingonotus) paradoxus – Benediktov 2009: 29.

TYPE SPECIMEN. — Iran • ♂; holotype; Chudza ; ZIN .

DISTRIBUTION. — Morocco, Algeria ( Descamps 1970); Tunisia ( Johnsen 1985); Mauritania, Niger, Chad ( Mestre & Chiffaud 2006); Iran ( Dey et al. 2018); Yemen ( Ingrisch 1999).

DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Gafsa ( Johnsen 1985).

MATERIAL EXAMINED.— Tunisia • 1♀; Tozeur, Degache ; 29.IV.2017; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7083 • 1 ♂; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF 7074 .

NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Tozeur, Gouifla, Degache.

HABITAT. — Very abundant in desertic steppe (H. Tlili, pers. obs.).

DNA SEQUENCES. — We generated a new sequence for the mitochondrial marker COI (654 bp) ( Table 4 View TABLE ).

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Abbreviations

ZIN	Russia, St. Petersburg, Russian Academy of Sciences, Zoological Institute
ZIN	Russian Academy of Sciences, Zoological Institute, Zoological Museum

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Orthoptera
SubOrder	Caelifera
Family	Baissogryllidae
SubFamily	Oedipodinae
Genus	Sphingonotus
SubGenus	Neosphingonotus