Sphingonotus (Sphingonotus) rubescens rubescens ( Walker, 1870 )

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) rubescens rubescens ( Walker, 1870)

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Oedipoda rubescens Walker, 1870b: 2304 .

Sphingonolus coerulans ( Linnaeus, 1767) – Finot 1895: 469 (misidentification rectified by Chopard 1943: 318). — Vosseler 1902a: 372 (misidentification rectified by Uvarov 1923b: 67).

Sphingonotus rubescens – Kirby 1910: 274. — Chopard 1943: 318 – Tlili et al. 2019a: 391.

Sphingonotus rubescens rubescens – Mistshenko 1936: 168.

Sphingonotus (Sphingonotus) rubescens rubescens – Shishodia et al. 2010: 101.

TYPE SPECIMENS. — Egypt • ♂; type lost ( Johnston 1956); Sinai • ♀; holotype; Sinai; NHM .

DISTRIBUTION. — This species is widely distributed from Central Asia to North and Sub-Saharan Africa ( Mistshenko 1936).

DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Tozeur, Gouifla ( Tlili et al. 2019a).

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Tunisia • 1 ♂; Gafsa, Jebel Ben Younes ; 01.IV.2017; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4709 • 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4710 • 1 ♂; same data; 26.IV.2019; MNHN-EO-CAELIF 7075 • 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7076 • 1 ♂; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7077 • 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7078 • 1 ♂; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7079 • 1 ♀; Gafsa, El Guetar ; 30.IV.2017; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7080 • 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7081 • 1♀; Tozeur, Degache ; 29.IV.2016; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4700 • 1 ♀; Kasserine, Sbeitla ; 25.VII.2017; M. Mahfoudhi; INAT .

NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Kasserine, Sbeitla; Gafsa, Jebel Ben Younes, El Guetar; Tozeur, Degache.

HABITAT. — Desert or semi-desert region ( Usmani 2008); base of mountain (H. Tlili, pers. obs.).

DNA SEQUENCES. — We generated new sequences for two markers: COI (653 bp) and ND2 (449 bp) ( Table 4 ).

Figures

FIG. 53. — Habitus of Sphingonotus (Sphingonotus) rubescens rubescens (Walker, 1870): A, B, female from Gafsa, 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.