Tenuitarsus angustus ( Blanchard, 1836 )

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 : 710

Tenuitarsus angustus ( Blanchard, 1836) **

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Ommexecha angustum Blanchard, 1836: 624 .

Leptoscirtus angustus – Jacobson & Bianchi 1902: 191.

Tenuitarsus angustus – Uvarov 1924: 36.

TYPE SPECIMEN. — Egypt • ♀; neotype (Kevan 1953); Cairo; OUMNH .

DISTRIBUTION. — Morocco ( Defaut & Francois 2018); Algeria ( Zergoun et al. 2019); Libya ( Massa 2009); Mauritania, Chad ( Mestre & Chiffaud 2006); Egypt ( Saussure 1889); Somalia ( Chopard 1943); Iraq ( Uvarov 1921a); Iran ( Hodjat et al. 2018); United Arab Emirates ( Buzzetti et al. 2014).

DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — No available data for this species in Tunisia.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Tunisia • 1♀; Tozeur, Gouifla ; 05.X.2016; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4731 .

Mauritania • 1 ♂; Coppolani; 25.VIII.1956; C. Rungs; MNHN-EO-CAELIF 9129 .

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

HABITAT. — Arid and desertic environments ( Morales Agacino 1945).

REMARKS. — This species was erroneously reported from Algeria as Notopleura pygmaea Vosseler, 1902 ( Moussi et al. 2014), a misidentification rectified here.

DNA SEQUENCES. — We generated a new sequence for the mitochondrial marker COI (655 bp) ( Table 4 ).

Figures

FIG. 76. — Habitus of Tenuitarsus angustus (Blanchard,1836): A, B, female from Tozeur,Tunisia,dorsal view (A), lateral view (B); C, D, male from Mauritania,dorsal view (C), lateral view (D). Scale bars: 1 cm. Photos: H. Tlili.