Wohlfahrtia indigens Villeneuve, 1928

(Figs 3, 5L)

Wohlfahrtia indigens Villeneuve, 1928: 49 . Algeria, Laghouat.

Wohlfahrtia aethiopica Villeneuve, 1928: 50 . Somalia, Bulhar.

Wohlfahrtia triquetra Séguy, 1933: 126 (as “ Wohlfartia triquetra ”), syn. nov. Chad, Ouri.

Distribution. Palaearctic—Afghanistan, Algeria, Canary Islands, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Morocco, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, UZbekistan; Afrotropical—Chad, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Somalia.

Remarks. The nominal taXon Wohlfahrtia triquetra Séguy, 1933 had not been revised since its proposal, and Séguy’s original figure, showing male terminalia with a highly characteristic phallus equipped with a unique, abruptly recurved apical segment (“prépuce”, see Séguy 1933: fig. 15), has been reproduced in subsequent taXonomic treatments (Salem 1938; Séguy 1941; Verves 1985). Séguy (1933: 127) mentions one female from “Silet, Ahaggar occidental, 12-Xii-1927 ” [Algeria] as well as two males “capturés par M. DALLONI, en janvier, dans l’est du Tibesti, auX environs de Douri” (Chad). We have recovered and eXamined the male dissected and illustrated by Séguy (1933) and deposited in MNHN (Fig. 3C), and we herewith designate this specimen as lectotype, with the type locality restricted accordingly. The specimen has been identified by us as Wohlfahrtia indigens . The distal part of the phallus is evidently broken, which probably occurred during slide-mount preparation of the male terminalia. The shape of the cercus, surstylus, and gonites; the position of the postgonite bristle; and the dorsal curvature of the phallus are here considered a good match with Wohlfahrtia indigens (Figs 3C, 5L). The lectotype is labelled (top to bottom): “ triquetra [black handwriting] / É. SÉGUY det. 19 [black print] // MUSÉUM PARIS / TIBESTI E / MISSION DALLONI / 1931 [black print on blue label] // TYPE [black print on red label] // triquetra / prep. micr. / No. 164 / 165 [black handwriting] // JANVIER // ENV DOURI [black print on blue label]” (Fig. 3D).