Scintharista notabilis notabilis ( 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 : 626

Scintharista notabilis notabilis ( Walker, 1870)

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Acridium miniatum Brullé, 1840: 78 (name preoccupied, mentioned by Bolívar 1922: 174).

Oedipoda notabilis Walker, 1870a: 745 .

Oedipoda brullei Saussure, 1884: 148 .

Quiroguesia miniata – Bolívar 1886: 516.

Quiroguesia brullei – Saussure 1888: 52.

Quiroguesia notabilis – Kirby 1910: 217.

Scintharista notabilis – Willemse 1936: 102.

Scintharista notabilis notabilis – Uvarov 1941: 93.

TYPE SPECIMEN. — Canary Islands • unspecified; syntypes; Tenerife ; NHM .

DISTRIBUTION. — Sub-Saharan Africa ( Mestre & Chiffaud 2006); Morocco ( Chopard 1943); Algeria ( Moussi et al. 2018); Tunisia ( Uvarov 1941); Libya ( Massa 1998); Egypt ( Haggag et al. 2008).

DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Gafsa ( Uvarov 1941).

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Canary Islands • unspecified syntype; Tenerife; NHMUK 013806005 • same data; NHMUK 013806005 .

Tunisia • 1 ♂; Gafsa, Ben Younes Mountain ; 17.VII.2016; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4695 • 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF 4696 • 2 ♂; Gafsa, El Guetar ; 30.IV.2017; H. Tlili; INAT .

NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Gafsa, Ben Younes Mountain, El Guetar.

HABITAT. — Generally, Scintharista notabilis notabilis occurs in dry mountain and stony places (H. Tlili, pers. obs).

Figures

FIG. 45. — Habitus of Scintharista notabilis notabilis (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.