Sphingonotus (Sphingonotus) savignyi Saussure, 1884

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 : 703-704

Sphingonotus (Sphingonotus) savignyi Saussure, 1884

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Sphingonotus savignyi Saussure, 1884: 208 . — Vosseler 1902a: 378. — Massa & Rizzo 1998: 286.

Pseudosphingonotus savignyi – Shumakov 1963: 158.

Sphingonotus (Sphingonotus) savignyi savignyi – Dey et al. 2018: 170.

TYPE SPECIMENS. — Egypt • 2 ♂; possible syntypes ( Hollier 2012a); MHNG .

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

DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Southern Tunisia ( Vosseler 1902a); Tamerza ( Massa & Rizzo 1998).

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Tunisia • 1 ♂; Tozeur, Degache ; 29.IV.2017; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4701 • 1 ♂; same data; 29.IV.2016; MNHN-EO-CAELIF9118 • 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF9119 • 1 ♀; Tozeur, Gouifla ; 02. VI.2016; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4711 • 4 ♂, 4 ♀; same data; INAT .

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

HABITAT. — Subdesert and desert environment ( Chopard 1950, Tlili et al. 2019a).

DNA SEQUENCES. — We generated new sequences for two markers: COI (670 bp) and ND2 (458 bp) ( Table 4 ).

Figures

FIG. 54. — Habitus of Sphingonotus (Sphingonotus) savignyi Saussure, 1884: 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.