Sphingonotus (Sphingonotus) octofasciatus ( Serville, 1838 )

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 : 703

Sphingonotus (Sphingonotus) octofasciatus ( Serville, 1838)

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Oedipoda octofasciata Serville, 1838: 728 .

Acrotylus octofasciatus – Bonnet & Finot 1885: 215.

Sphingonotus octofasciatus – Finot 1895: 477. — Vosseler 1902a: 379.

Sphingonotus (Sphingonotus) octofasciatus . — Shishodia et al. 2010: 101 – Husemann et al. 2015: 5.

TYPE SPECIMEN. — Egypt • ♀; holotype; MNHN .

DISTRIBUTION. — Morocco ( Defaut & François 2018); Algeria ( Moussi et al. 2011); Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Palestine, Iran, Turkestan ( Chopard 1943); Palestine ( Abusarhan et al. 2017); Spain ( Badih et al. 1995); India ( Shishodia et al. 2010).

DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Bled Segui, Bir Beni Zid, oases of Djerid ( Bonnet & Finot 1885); Gafsa ( Vosseler 1902a; Husemann et al. 2015).

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Egypt • 1 ♀; holotype; 1802; Bové; MNHN-EO-CAELIF438.

Tunisia • 1 ♂; Tozeur, Degache ; 29.IV.2017; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF 4707 • 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4708 • 1 ♂; same data; INAT .

NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Gafsa, Douwara; Tozeur, Degache.

HABITAT. — Rocky hills ( Krauss 1902); foothills (H. Tlili, pers. obs.).

DNA SEQUENCES. — We generated a new sequence for the mitochondrial marker ND2 (454 bp) ( Table 4 ).

Figures

FIG. 52. — Habitus of Sphingonotus (Sphingonotus) octofasciatus (Serville, 1838): A, B, female from Tozeur, Tunisia, dorsal view (A), lateral view (B); C, D, male from Tozeur, Tunisia, dorsal view (C), lateral view (D). Scale bars: 1 cm. Photos: H. Tlili.