Stenohippus mundus ( Walker, 1871 )

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 : 621

Stenohippus mundus ( Walker, 1871) ***

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Stenobothrus mundus Walker, 1871: 79 .

Stenobothrus epacromioides var. nigrovittata Krauss, 1892b: 166 .

Stenobothrus bonneti Bolívar, 1885: 116 . — Finot 1895: 425. — Vosseler 1902b: 5.

Omocestus bonneti – Kirby 1910: 172.

Stauroderus nigrovittatus – Kirby 1910: 180.

Dociostaurus mundus – Kirby 1914: 119.

Stauroderus bonneti – Bolívar 1915: 33.

Stenohippus mundus – Uvarov 1926c: 425.

Stenohippus epacromioides var. nigrovittata – Uvarov 1926c: Ibid. 425.

Stenohippus bonneti – Uvarov 1926c: 425. — Chopard 1943: 277.

TYPE SPECIMEN. — India • ♂; holotype; Bombay ; NHM .

DISTRIBUTION. — This species is present in North and sub-Saharan Africa, across Saudi Arabia to Pakistan and India ( Mestre & Chiffaud 2006).

DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Bir Beni Zid, Chott Fedjej ( Finot 1895); Bou Hedma ( Chopard 1943).

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Tunisia • 1 ♂; Gafsa, Amra ; 26.IV.2019; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7030 • 1♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7031 • 1 ♂; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7432 • 1♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7433 • 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7434 • 1♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7435 • 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7436 • 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7437 • 1♀; Gafsa, El Guetar ; 30.IV.2017; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF 4672 • 1 ♂; same data; INAT • 1 ♂; Tozeur, Souani Ali ; 31.III.2016; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4671 .

NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Gafsa, Amra, El Guetar; Tozeur, Souani Ali.

HABITAT. — Waddies and depressions (Maxwell-Darling 1934).

REMARKS. — Stenohippus mundus has an extensive distribution from East Africa (Maxwell-Darling 1934) to West Asia ( Walker 1871). In North Africa, the last record of this species was in 1884 by Bonnet. We confirm here the presence of S. mundus in Tunisia.

DNA SEQUENCES. — We generated a new sequence for the mitochondrial marker COI (658 bp) ( Table 4 ).

Figures

FIG. 28. — Habitus of Stenohippus mundus (Walker, 1871): A, B, female from Gafsa, Tunisia, dorsal view (A), lateral view (B); C, D, male from Gafsa, Tunisia; C, dorsal view; D, lateral view. Scale bars: 1 cm. Photos: H. Tlili.