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Stenohippus mundus (Walker, 1871) *** (Fig. 28) 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)., Published as part of 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, pp. 607-738 in Zoosystema 42 (31) on page 621, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a31, http://zenodo.org/record/4382361, {"references":["WALKER F. 1871. - Catalogue of the specimens of Dermaptera Saltatoria in the collection of the British Museum. Supplement 5: 49 - 89. https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 8218431","KRAUSS H. A. 1892 b. - Systematisches Verzeichnis der canarischen Dermapteren und Orthopteren mit Diagnosen der neuen Gattungen und Arten. Zoologischer Anzeiger 15: 163 - 171","BOLIVAR I. 1885. - Diagnoses d'ortopteres nouveaux. Le Naturaliste 7: 116 - 117.","FINOT A. 1895. - Faune de l'Algerie et de la Tunisie. Insectes Orthopteres. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France 64: 57 - 120, 401 - 552, 655 - 676.","VOSSELER J. 1902 b. - Beitrage zur Faunistik und Biologie der Orthopteren Algeriens und Tunesiens, II. Theil. Zoologische Jahrbucher. Abteilung fur Systematik, Geographie Und Biologie Der Tiere 17: 1 - 99.","KIRBY W. F. 1910. - A Synonymic Catalogue of the Orthoptera. Vol. 3., Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 674 p.","KIRBY W. F. 1914. - Orthoptera. (Acridiidae), in SHIPLEY A. F. (ed.), The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Friedlander & Sohn, Berlin, 276 p.","BOLIVAR I. 1915. - Extension de la fauna paleartica en Marruecos. Trabajos del Museo de Ciencias Naturales, (Serie Zoologica) 10, 83 p.","UVAROV B. P. 1926 c. - Grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae) from Northern Nigeria. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 1925: 413 - 453.","CHOPARD L. 1943. - Faune de l'Empire francais: I OrthopteroIdes de l'Afrique du Nord. Librairie Larose, Paris, 450 p.","MESTRE J. & CHIFFAUD J. 2006. - Catalogue et atlas des acridiens d'Afrique de l'Ouest, 349 p."]}

Thalpomena algeriana algeriana (Lucas, 1849) (Fig. 56) Oedipoda algeriana Lucas, 1849b: 34. Thalpomena algeriana – Saussure 1884: 184. Thalpomena algeriana algeriana – Dirsh 1949a: 366. — Massa 1999: 78. TYPE SPECIMEN. — Algeria • ♀; holotype; Kouba; MNHN. DISTRIBUTION. — Algeria (Moussi et al. 2018); Tunisia (Massa 1999). DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Meknassy (Chopard 1943); Feriana (Massa 1999). MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Algeria • 1 ♀; holotype; Kouba; H. Lucas; MNHN-EO-CAELIF538. Tunisia • 1 ♀; Beja, Bechouk; 12.II.2017; W. Bedoui; MNHN-EO-CAELIF 4712 • 1 ♂; Hammam Lif; 1901; J. de Gaulle; MNHN-EO-CAELIF3777 • 1 ♂; Tunis; 1901; J. de Gaulle; MNHN-EO-CAELIF3778 • 1♀; Jendouba, Ain Draham; 1889; S. Seurat; MNHN-EO-CAELIF3779. Algeria • 1 ♀; Oran; 14.II.1880; MNHN-EO-CAELIF9146. NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — None. HABITAT. — Rocky, dry and sunny places (Chopard 1943)., Published as part of 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, pp. 607-738 in Zoosystema 42 (31) on page 704, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a31, http://zenodo.org/record/4382361, {"references":["LUCAS P. H. 1849 a. - Exploration Scientifique de l'Algerie: Histoire Naturelle des Animaux Articules. Les Orthopteres 3: 1 - 39.","LUCAS P. H. 1849 b. - Histoire naturelle des animaux articules. Exploration scientifique de l'Algerie pendant les annees 1840, 1841, 1842. II. Imprimerie Nationale, Paris, 590 p.","SAUSSURE H. DE 1884. - Prodromus Oedipodiorum - Insectorum ex ordine Orthopterorum. Memoires de la Societe de physique et d'histoire naturelle de Geneve 28 (9): 1 - 256.","DIRSH V. M. 1949 a. - The genus Thalpomena Saussure, 1884 (Orthoptera, Acrididae) and Its allies. Transactions of the Royal entomological Society of London, 100 (13): 363 - 391.","MASSA B. 1999. - Ortotteri dell'area mediterranea e delle isole azzorre nuovi o poco noti (Insecta). Atti dell'Accademia Roveretana degli Agiati ser. VII, vol. IX, (B): 57 - 80.","MOUSSI A., DEY L. S., PETIT D., ABBA A., KLESSER R. & HUSEMANN M. 2018. - First genetic data for band-winged grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Oedipodinae) of the Biskra region of Algeria with new records for the country. African zoology 53 (1): 31 - 40. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 15627020.2018.1463172","CHOPARD L. 1943. - Faune de l'Empire francais: I OrthopteroIdes de l'Afrique du Nord. Librairie Larose, Paris, 450 p."]}

Notopleura pygmaea Vosseler, 1902 * (Fig. 16) Notopleura pygmaea Vosseler, 1902a: 356; 1902b: 5. — Bolívar 1915: 34. — Chopard 1943: 280. TYPE SPECIMEN. — Tunisia • ♀; holotype; South of Gabes; SMNS. DISTRIBUTION. — Tunisia (Vosseler 1902a, 1902b; Bolívar 1915; Chopard 1943. DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Gabes (Vosseler 1902a, b; Bolívar 1915; Chopard 1943). MATERIAL EXAMINED. — None. NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — None. HABITAT. — According to Vosseler (1902a), Notopleura pygmaea occurs exclusively in desert environments. REMARKS. — This species is endemic in Southern Tunisia and is recorded only from the original citation of Vosseler (1902a). It has been erroneously reported from Algeria by Moussi et al. (2014) in the place of misidentified Tenuitarsus angustus (Pyrgomorphidae: Pyrgomorphinae)., Published as part of 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, pp. 607-738 in Zoosystema 42 (31) on page 618, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a31, http://zenodo.org/record/4382361, {"references":["VOSSELER J. 1902 a. - Beitrage zur Faunistik und Biologie der Orthopteren Algeriens und Tunesiens. Zoologische Jahrbucher. Abteilung fur Systematik, Geographie Und Biologie Der Tiere 16: 337 - 404.","VOSSELER J. 1902 b. - Beitrage zur Faunistik und Biologie der Orthopteren Algeriens und Tunesiens, II. Theil. Zoologische Jahrbucher. Abteilung fur Systematik, Geographie Und Biologie Der Tiere 17: 1 - 99.","BOLIVAR I. 1915. - Extension de la fauna paleartica en Marruecos. Trabajos del Museo de Ciencias Naturales, (Serie Zoologica) 10, 83 p.","CHOPARD L. 1943. - Faune de l'Empire francais: I OrthopteroIdes de l'Afrique du Nord. Librairie Larose, Paris, 450 p.","MOUSSI A., ABBA A., HARRAT A. & PETIT D. 2014. - Description of Dociostaurus biskrensis sp. nov. and male allotypes of four species: Pamphagulus bodenheimeri dumonti, P. uvarovi, Sphingonotus ebneri and Notopleura pygmaea (Orthoptera: Acridoidea) in the region of Biskra, Algeria. Zootaxa 3755 (4): 379 - 390. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3755.4.4"]}

Egnatioides striatus Vosseler, 1902 * (Fig. 13) Egnatioides striatus Vosseler, 1902a: 362. — Uvarov 1942 [1941]: 346. — Chopard 1943: 327. TYPE SPECIMENS. — Algeria • unspecified; syntypes; Djelfa; SMNS. DISTRIBUTION. — Morocco (Defaut 1984); Algeria (Moussi et al. 2011); Tunisia (Vosseler 1902a); Libya (Massa 1998). DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Gafsa, Gabes (Vosseler 1902a; Uvarov 1942 [1941]; Chopard 1943). MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Morocco • 1 ♂; Midelt; 23.V.1983; B. Defaut; MNHN-EO-CAELIF119. Algeria • 1 ♀; Boghari, R. Pasquier; MNHN-EO-CAELIF118. NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — None. HABITAT. — According to Chopard (1943), this species is present in all the south part of Tunisia and Algeria., Published as part of 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, pp. 607-738 in Zoosystema 42 (31) on pages 617-618, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a31, http://zenodo.org/record/4382361, {"references":["VOSSELER J. 1902 a. - Beitrage zur Faunistik und Biologie der Orthopteren Algeriens und Tunesiens. Zoologische Jahrbucher. Abteilung fur Systematik, Geographie Und Biologie Der Tiere 16: 337 - 404.","UVAROV B. P. 1942 [1941]. - New and less known southern Palaearctic Orthoptera. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 67 (3): 303 - 361.","UVAROV B. P. 1941. - Geographical variation in Scintharista notabilis (Walker 1870) (Orthoptera, Acrididae). Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London (B) 10: 91 - 97. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 3113.1941. tb 00701. x","CHOPARD L. 1943. - Faune de l'Empire francais: I OrthopteroIdes de l'Afrique du Nord. Librairie Larose, Paris, 450 p.","DEFAUT B. 1984. - Notopleura rhelbanensis sp. nov. (Orth.: Acrididae) et la faune orthopterique de la steppe a armoise aux environs de Midelt (Maroc). Actes de l'Institut Agronomique et Veterinaire, Hassan II. Special zoologie, 4 (1): 81 - 86.","MOUSSI A., ABBA A., HARRAT A. & PETIT D. 2011. - Desert acridian fauna (Orthoptera, Acridomorpha): Comparison between steppic and oasian habitats in Algeria. Comptes Rendus de Biologie 334 (2): 158 - 167. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. crvi. 2010.12.001","MASSA B. 1998. - Attuali conoscenze sugli Ortotteri della Libia (Insecta Orthoptera). Il Naturalista Siciliano 22: 235 - 320."]}

Duroniella lucasii (Bolívar, 1881) (Fig. 4) Phleoba (Duronia) lucasii Bolívar, 1881: 502. Phleoba (Duronia) lucasi – Bonnet & Finot 1885: 213. Duronia lucasi – Krauss 1890: 260. Phleoba lucasi – Finot 1895: 417. Duronia (Phleoba) lucasi – Vosseler 1902a: 354. Duroniella lucasii – Kirby 1910: 140. Duroniella lucasi – Salfi 1929: 151. — Chopard 1943: 259. TYPE SPECIMEN. — Algeria • ♂; holotype; Oran; MNCN. DISTRIBUTION. — North Africa (Chopard 1943; Usmani 2008); Iran (Hodjat et al. 2018). DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Gabes (Bonnet & Finot 1885; Vosseler 1902a); Kerkennah Island, Ksar el-Ahmar, Bled Thalah, Tozeur (Bonnet & Finot 1885); Gafsa (Vosseler 1902a); Kasserine (Chopard 1943). MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Tunisia • 1 ♀; Tozeur, Souani Ali; 31.III.2016; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4683 • 2 ♀; same data; INAT. Morocco • 1 ♂; Maader Anziz; VIII.1987; Thewys; MNHN-EO-CAELIF529. NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Tozeur, Souani Ali; Gafsa, Amra. HABITAT. — This species is found in irrigated fields and oases (H. Tlili, pers. obs). REMARK. — Duroniella lucasii was recently moved by Popov et al. (2019) from the subfamily Oedipodinae to the subfamily Acridinae using many morphological and genital structures., Published as part of 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, pp. 607-738 in Zoosystema 42 (31) on page 615, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a31, http://zenodo.org/record/4382361, {"references":["BOLIVAR I. 1881. - Notas entomologicas. Vl. Especies nuevas de Ortopteros de Argelia. Anales de la Sociedad Espanola de Historia Natural 10: 499 - 507.","BONNET E. & FINOT A. 1885. - Les Orthopteres de la regence de Tunis. Revue des sciences naturelles, 3 eme serie 4: 193 - 232, 333 - 365.","KRAUSS H. A. 1890. - Erklarung der Orthopteren-Tafeln J. C. Savigny's in der \" Description de l'Egypte \". Aus der Literatur zusammengestellt und mit Bemerkungen Versehen. Verhandlungen der zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 40: 227 - 272.","FINOT A. 1895. - Faune de l'Algerie et de la Tunisie. Insectes Orthopteres. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France 64: 57 - 120, 401 - 552, 655 - 676.","VOSSELER J. 1902 a. - Beitrage zur Faunistik und Biologie der Orthopteren Algeriens und Tunesiens. Zoologische Jahrbucher. Abteilung fur Systematik, Geographie Und Biologie Der Tiere 16: 337 - 404.","KIRBY W. F. 1910. - A Synonymic Catalogue of the Orthoptera. Vol. 3., Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 674 p.","SALFI M. 1929. - Contribuzioni alla conoscenza degli Ortotteri libici 5. Su alcune specie poco note di Acrididae di Tripolitania e su Rhacocleis dernensis Salfi. Memorie della Societa Entomologica Italiana 6: 150 - 164.","CHOPARD L. 1943. - Faune de l'Empire francais: I OrthopteroIdes de l'Afrique du Nord. Librairie Larose, Paris, 450 p.","USMANI M. K. 2008. - Studies on Acridoidea (Orthoptera) with some new records from Fezzan, Libya. Zootaxa 1946: 1 - 41. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 1946.1.1","HODJAT S. H., TORK M., SEIEDY M. & DEFAUT B. 2018. - A taxonomic review of recorded species of Caelifera (Orthoptera) in Iran. Materriaux Orthopteriques et Entomologiques 23: 35 - 75.","POPOV G. B., FISHPOOL L. D. & ROWELL H. 2019. - A review of the Acridinae s. str. (Orthoptera: Acridoidea: Acrididae) of eastern Africa with taxonomic changes and description of new taxa. Journal of Orthoptera Research, 28 (1), 37 - 101. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / jor. 28.29312"]}

Ochrilidia gracilis gracilis (Krauss, 1902) * (Fig. 26) Platypterna gracilis Krauss 1902: 236. — Chopard 1943: 264. Ochrilidia gracilis – Chopard 1950: 137. Ochrilidia gracilis gracilis – Massa 1994: 7. TYPE SPECIMEN. — Algeria • ♂; holotype; Ghardaia; SMNS. DISTRIBUTION. — Algeria (Zergoun et al. 2019); Egypt (Willemse 2009); Sindh, Pakistan (Sultana et al. 2013). This species is widespread in North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa to Central Asia (Mestre & Chiffaud 2006). DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Maknassy, Bou Hedma (Chopard 1943); Tamerza (Massa 1994). MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Tunisia • 1 ♂; Meknassy; 4.IX.1929; C. Dumont; MNHN-EO-CAELIF397 • 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF 398. NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — None. HABITAT. — Humid places and oases (Moussi et al. 2011)., Published as part of 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, pp. 607-738 in Zoosystema 42 (31) on page 621, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a31, http://zenodo.org/record/4382361, {"references":["KRAUSS H. A. 1902. - Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Orthopteren- Fauna der Sahara. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Koniglichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 52: 230 - 254. https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 13332775","CHOPARD L. 1943. - Faune de l'Empire francais: I OrthopteroIdes de l'Afrique du Nord. Librairie Larose, Paris, 450 p.","CHOPARD L. 1950. - Contribution a l'etude de l'Air. Orthopteroldes. Memoires de l'Institut Francais d'Afrique Noire 10: 127 - 145.","MASSA B. 1994. - Note corologiche e biologiche su alcuni ortotteri mediterranei. Bollettino della Societa entomologica italiana Genova 126 (1): 3 - 8.","ZERGOUN Y., GUEZOUL O., SEKOUR M., BOURAS N. & HOLTZ M. D. 2019. - Acridid (Orthoptera: Caelifera) diversity in agriculture ecosystems at three locations in the Mzab valley, Septentrional Sahara, Algeria. Journal of Insect Biodiversity 9 (1): 18 - 27. https: // doi. org / 10.12976 / jib / 2019.09.1.2","WILLEMSE J. 2009. - Orthoptera-Saltatoria species observed in Egypt and Jordan between 2001 and 2006. Articulata 24 (1 / 2): 123 - 130.","SULTANA R., SAEED WAGAN Y. & SAEED WAGAN M. 2013. - Orthopteran Biodiversity of Thar Desert, Sindh, Pakistan. Pakistan Journal of Zoology 45 (2): 299 - 304.","MESTRE J. & CHIFFAUD J. 2006. - Catalogue et atlas des acridiens d'Afrique de l'Ouest, 349 p.","MOUSSI A., ABBA A., HARRAT A. & PETIT D. 2011. - Desert acridian fauna (Orthoptera, Acridomorpha): Comparison between steppic and oasian habitats in Algeria. Comptes Rendus de Biologie 334 (2): 158 - 167. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. crvi. 2010.12.001"]}

Heteracris minuta (Uvarov, 1921) * (Fig. 22) Thisoicetrus littoralis variety minuta Uvarov, 1921b: 123. — Chopard 1943: 410. Thisoicetrus littoralis minuta – Uvarov 1923b: 77. Thisoicetrus littoralis minutus – Uvarov 1939: 382. Heteracris littoralis minuta – Dirsh 1958: 53. Heteracris minuta – Grunshaw 1991: 28. TYPE SPECIMEN. — Algeria • ♂; holotype; Annaba; NHM. DISTRIBUTION. — Algeria, Tunisia, Libya (Grunshaw 1991). DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Miknassi (Chopard 1943). MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Tunisia • 1 ♀; Meknassy; 3.VIII.1929; C. Dumont; MNHN-EO-CAELIF66. NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — None. HABITAT. — No data., Published as part of 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, pp. 607-738 in Zoosystema 42 (31) on page 620, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a31, http://zenodo.org/record/4382361, {"references":["UVAROV B. P. 1921 a. - A contribution to our knowledge of the Orthoptera Acridoidea of Mesopotamia and N. W. Persia. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 27: 803 - 812.","UVAROV B. P. 1921 b. - Notes on the Orthoptera in the British Museum. I. the group Euprepocnemini. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 7: 106 - 144. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 2311.1921. tb 02804. x","CHOPARD L. 1943. - Faune de l'Empire francais: I OrthopteroIdes de l'Afrique du Nord. Librairie Larose, Paris, 450 p.","UVAROV B. P. 1923 b. - Records and descriptions of Orthoptera from North-West Africa. Novitates zoologicae 30: 59 - 78. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 28982","UVAROV B. P. 1939. - A preliminary revision of the palaearctic species and subspecies of Thisoicetrus Br. W. (Orthoptera, Acrididae). Novitates Zoologicae 41: 377 - 382. https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 34053620","DIRSH V. M. 1958. - Acridological notes. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 101: 51 - 63.","GRUNSHAW J. P. 1991. - A revision of the grasshopper genus Heteracris (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Eyprepocnemidinae). Natural Resources Institute Bulletin 38: 1 - 106. http: // gala. gre. ac. uk / id / eprint / 11108"]}

Eremogryllus hammadae Krauss, 1902 * (Fig. 15) Eremogryllus hammadae Krauss, 1902: 231. — Vosseler 1902a: 355. — Uvarov 1923b: 64. Leptopternis quadriocellata Werner, 1931: 202. Sphingonotina ochracea Chopard, 1943: 323. TYPE SPECIMEN. — Algeria • ♀; holotype; Sahara, Ouargla to Ghardaia; ZMHB. DISTRIBUTION. — North Africa (Uvarov & Volkonsky 1939); Egypt (Ebner 1956). DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Gafsa (Vosseler 1902a; Uvarov 1923a); Djerba (NHM). MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Tunisia • 1 ♀; Djerba; 17.VI.1982; NHMUK 013806164. NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — None. HABITAT. — This species occurs in desert environments (Uvarov & Volkonsky 1939)., Published as part of 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, pp. 607-738 in Zoosystema 42 (31) on page 618, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a31, http://zenodo.org/record/4382361, {"references":["KRAUSS H. A. 1902. - Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Orthopteren- Fauna der Sahara. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Koniglichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 52: 230 - 254. https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 13332775","VOSSELER J. 1902 a. - Beitrage zur Faunistik und Biologie der Orthopteren Algeriens und Tunesiens. Zoologische Jahrbucher. Abteilung fur Systematik, Geographie Und Biologie Der Tiere 16: 337 - 404.","UVAROV B. P. 1923 b. - Records and descriptions of Orthoptera from North-West Africa. Novitates zoologicae 30: 59 - 78. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 28982","WERNER F. 1931. - Neue Geradflugler (Insecta Orthoptera), gesammelt auf einer im Jahre 1930 mit Unterstutzung der Akademie unternommenen Reise nach Marokko. Anzeiger der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften 68: 201 - 204.","CHOPARD L. 1943. - Faune de l'Empire francais: I OrthopteroIdes de l'Afrique du Nord. Librairie Larose, Paris, 450 p.","UVAROV B. P. & VOLKONSKY M. A. 1939. - Notes on a desert grasshopper with digging habits, Eremogryllus hammadae KRAUSS 1902 (Orthoptera, Acrididae). Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London, (A) 14: 19 - 23. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 3032.1939. tb 00546. x","EBNER R. 1956. - Ueber einige fur Aegypten neue oder seltene Orthopteren. Bulletin de la Societe entomologique d'Egypte 40: 11 - 20.","UVAROV B. P. 1923 a. - Notes on locusts of economic importance with some new data on the periodicity of locust invasion. Bulletin of Entomological Research 14: 31 - 39. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / S 0007485300028182"]}

Acinipe algeriensis Descamps & Mounassif, 1972 * (Fig. 62) Acinipe hesperica algeriensis Descamps & Mounassif, 1972: 280. Acinipe hesperica – Massa 1994: 4 (misidentification rectified by Biondi & Massa 1995: 104). Acinipe algeriensis – Biondi & Massa 1995: 104. TYPE SPECIMENS. — Algeria • ♂; holotype; Laghouat; MNHN • ♀; allotype; Laghouat; MNHN. DISTRIBUTION. — Algeria (Moussi et al. 2011); Tunisia (Biondi & Massa 1995). DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Kasserine, Bireno mountain (Biondi & Massa 1995). MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Algeria • 1 ♂; holotype; Laghouat, 1934, L. Chopard; MNHN-EO-CAELIF265. Allotype • 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF266. NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — None. HABITAT. — Sandy steppe (Moussi et al. 2011)., Published as part of 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, pp. 607-738 in Zoosystema 42 (31) on page 706, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a31, http://zenodo.org/record/4382361, {"references":["DESCAMPS M. & MOUNASSIF M. 1972. - Le complexe Orchamus, Paracinipe, Acinipe et Pamphagus (Acridomorpha, Pamphagidae). Acrida. 1: 247 - 303.","MASSA B. 1994. - Note corologiche e biologiche su alcuni ortotteri mediterranei. Bollettino della Societa entomologica italiana Genova 126 (1): 3 - 8.","BIONDI M. & MASSA B. 1995. - Le specie nordafricane e italiane del genere Acinipe (Orthoptera, Pamphagidae). Fragmenta Entomologica 27 (1): 61 - 115.","MOUSSI A., ABBA A., HARRAT A. & PETIT D. 2011. - Desert acridian fauna (Orthoptera, Acridomorpha): Comparison between steppic and oasian habitats in Algeria. Comptes Rendus de Biologie 334 (2): 158 - 167. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. crvi. 2010.12.001"]}

Truxalis procera Klug, 1830 * (Fig. 6) Truxalis procera Klug, 1830: pl. 16 – Dirsh 1950 [1951]: 183. TYPE SPECIMEN. — Saudi Arabia • unspecified; South Saudi Arabia; unknown repository. DISTRIBUTION. — Río de Oro, Mauritania, Algeria, Tunisia, Niger, Chad, Libya, Sudan, Eritrea, Somalia, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan (Dirsh 1950 [1951]) and Saudi Arabia (El-Hawagry et al. 2013). DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Nefta (Dirsh 1950 [1951]). MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Mauritania • 1♂; Togba; 19.VI.1938; Mission d’Etudes de la Biologie des Acridiens; MNHN-EO-CAELIF334 • 1 ♀; Rhat Atoui; 06.II.1937; Mission d’Études de la Biologie des Acridiens; MNHN-EO-CAELIF335. Niger • 1 ♀; Agadez; VIII.1949; L. Chopard; MNHN-EO-CAELIF9100. Saudi Arabi • 1 ♂; North of Lith; 27.III.1948; B. P. Uvarov; MNHN-EO-CAELIF9101. NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — None. HABITAT. — Sandy Khor with shrubs (Maxwell-Darling 1934)., Published as part of 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, pp. 607-738 in Zoosystema 42 (31) on pages 615-616, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a31, http://zenodo.org/record/4382361, {"references":["KLUG F. 1830. - Symbolae physicae seu Icones et Descriptiones Insectorum quae ex itinere per Africam borealem et Asiam occidentalem. G. Hemprich et C. H. Ehrenberg studio novae aut illustratae redierunt, pls 14 - 20.","DIRSH V. M. DIRSH 1950 [1951]. - Revision of the group Truxalis (Orthoptera, Acrididae). Eos. Madrid, Tomo extraordinario, 1950: 119 - 248."]}

Finotia spinicollis Bonnet, 1884 * (Fig. 65) Finotia spinicollis Bonnet, 1884: 548. TYPE SPECIMEN. — Tunisia • ♀; holotype; Bir Arrach; MNHN. DISTRIBUTION. — Known only from the original type material. According to Massa (2013), this species is endemic to centralTunisia. DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Gafsa, Sfax (Bonnet 1884). MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Tunisia • 1♀; holotype; Bir Arrach, 1884; E. Bonnet; MNHN-EO-CAELIF239 • 1 ♂; Bir Arrach, 1884; E. Bonnet; MNHN-EO-CAELIF240 • 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF 241 • 1 ♂; Sfax, 1856; E. Ducouret; MNHN-EO-CAELIF2069. NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — We made several surveys specifically for this species specifically, following the paths of the past collectors, but we did not find it. HABITAT. — Finotia spinicollis prefers dry habitats (Chopard 1943). REMARKS. — The last collected specimens of this species are those of Bonnet (1884)., Published as part of 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, pp. 607-738 in Zoosystema 42 (31) on page 706, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a31, http://zenodo.org/record/4382361, {"references":["BONNET E. 1884. - Orthoptera tunetana duo nova. Le Naturaliste, 2 (69): 548 - 549.","MASSA B. 2013. - Pamphagidae (Orthoptera: Caelifera) of North Africa: key to genera and the annotated check-list of species. Zootaxa 3700 (3): 435 - 475. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3700.3.7","CHOPARD L. 1943. - Faune de l'Empire francais: I OrthopteroIdes de l'Afrique du Nord. Librairie Larose, Paris, 450 p."]}

Thalpomena coerulescens Uvarov, 1923 (Fig. 57) Thalpomena coerulescens Uvarov, 1923b: 65. — Dirsh 1949a: 374. TYPE SPECIMEN. — Algeria • ♀; holotype; Ain Sefra; NHM. DISTRIBUTION. — Morocco (Uvarov 1923b); Algeria (Moussi et al. 2018); Tunisia (Dirsh 1949a). DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Meknassy (Dirsh 1949a). MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Algeria • 1 ♀; holotype; Ain Sefra; V.1913; W. R & E. H; NHM. Tunisia • 1 ♀; Meknassy; 1929; C. Dumont; MNHN-EO-CAELIF3790 • 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF9121. Morocco • 1 ♂; Sous; 1.VII.1954; C. Rungs; MNHN-EO-CAELIF9122. NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — None HABITAT. — No data., Published as part of 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, pp. 607-738 in Zoosystema 42 (31) on page 704, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a31, http://zenodo.org/record/4382361, {"references":["UVAROV B. P. 1923 a. - Notes on locusts of economic importance with some new data on the periodicity of locust invasion. Bulletin of Entomological Research 14: 31 - 39. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / S 0007485300028182","UVAROV B. P. 1923 b. - Records and descriptions of Orthoptera from North-West Africa. Novitates zoologicae 30: 59 - 78. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 28982","DIRSH V. M. 1949 a. - The genus Thalpomena Saussure, 1884 (Orthoptera, Acrididae) and Its allies. Transactions of the Royal entomological Society of London, 100 (13): 363 - 391.","MOUSSI A., DEY L. S., PETIT D., ABBA A., KLESSER R. & HUSEMANN M. 2018. - First genetic data for band-winged grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Oedipodinae) of the Biskra region of Algeria with new records for the country. African zoology 53 (1): 31 - 40. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 15627020.2018.1463172"]}

Ochrilidia harterti harterti (Bolivar, 1913) * (Fig. 27) Platypterna harterti Bolívar, 1913: 608. — Chopard 1943: 264. Ochrilidia harterti – Chopard 1950: 138. Ochrilidia harterti harterti – Jago 1977: 192. TYPE SPECIMEN. — Algeria • ♀; holotype; Ain Guettara, north of Ain-Salah; MNCN. DISTRIBUTION. — Morocco (Defaut & François 2018); Algeria (Zergoun et al. 2019); Tunisia (Chopard 1943); Libya (Massa 2009); Mauritania, Niger, Chad, Djibouti, Saudi Arabia (Mestre & Chiffaud 2006). DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Maknassy, Tozeur (Chopard 1943). MATERIAL EXAMINED.— Tunisia • 1♀; Tozeur; 4.IX.1929; C. Dumont; MNHN-EO-CAELIF3783. Algeria • 1♀; 09.V.1950; MNHN-EO-CAELIF404 • 1♀; Tilrempt; 1934; L. Chopard; MNHN-EO-CAELIF405. NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — None. HABITAT. — Very common in clumps of grasses (Chopard 1950)., Published as part of 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, pp. 607-738 in Zoosystema 42 (31) on page 621, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a31, http://zenodo.org/record/4382361, {"references":["BOLIVAR I. 1913. - Ernst Hartert's expedition to the Central Western Sahara. XVII. Orthopteres. Novitates Zoologicae 20: 603 - 615.","CHOPARD L. 1943. - Faune de l'Empire francais: I OrthopteroIdes de l'Afrique du Nord. Librairie Larose, Paris, 450 p.","CHOPARD L. 1950. - Contribution a l'etude de l'Air. Orthopteroldes. Memoires de l'Institut Francais d'Afrique Noire 10: 127 - 145.","JAGO N. D. 1977. - Revision of the genus Ochrilidia Stal. 1873 with comments on the genera Sporobolius Uvarov, 1941 and Platypernodes I. Bolivar, 1908 (Orthoptera, Acrididae, Gomphocerinae). Acrida 6 (3): 163 - 217.","DEFAUT B. & FRANCOIS A. 2018. - Evaluation densitaires des Orthopteres en moyenne-Moulouya (Maroc oriental) (Ensifera, Caelifera, Mantodea). Materiaux Orthopteriques et entomocenotiques 23: 149 - 168.","ZERGOUN Y., GUEZOUL O., SEKOUR M., BOURAS N. & HOLTZ M. D. 2019. - Acridid (Orthoptera: Caelifera) diversity in agriculture ecosystems at three locations in the Mzab valley, Septentrional Sahara, Algeria. Journal of Insect Biodiversity 9 (1): 18 - 27. https: // doi. org / 10.12976 / jib / 2019.09.1.2","MASSA B. 2009. - Annotated check-list of Orthoptera of Libya. Journal of Orthoptera Research 18 (1): 75 - 94. https: // doi. org / 10.1665 / 034.018.0109","MESTRE J. & CHIFFAUD J. 2006. - Catalogue et atlas des acridiens d'Afrique de l'Ouest, 349 p."]}

Sphingoderus carinatus (Saussure, 1888) (Fig. 46) Sphingonotus coerulans var. carinata Saussure, 1888: 79. Sphingonotus coerulans var. mecheriae Krauss, 1893: XCV. Sphingonotus mecheriae – Vosseler 1902a: 370 (misidentification). Sphingonotus carinatus – Mistshenko 1936: 186. — Chopard 1943: 312. Sphingoderus carinatus – Bey-Bienko 1950: 203. — Husemann et al. 2012. TYPE SPECIMEN. — Algeria • ♀; holotype; Biskra; ZIN. DISTRIBUTION. — Algeria (Zergoun et al. 2019); Tunisia (Moussi et al. 2018); Egypt (Haggag et al. 2008). DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Gabes, Gafsa, Bou Hedma (Vosseler 1902a); Bou Hedma (Husemann et al. 2012). MATERIAL EXAMINED.— Tunisia • 1 ♂; Gafsa, Metkides; 01.VI.2016; H.Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4697 • 1 ♂, 2♀; same data; INAT • 1♀; Tozeur, Degache; 29.IV.2017; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4698 • 1 ♂; Kasserine, Sbeitela; 25.VII.2017; M. Mahfoudhi; MNHN-EO-CAELIF 7089 • 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7090 • 1♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7091 • 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF 7092 • 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7093 • 1 ♀; same data; INAT. NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Kasserine, Sbeitla; Gafsa, Metkides; Tozeur, Degach; Kebili, Essagui. HABITAT. — Sub desert areas (H. Tlili, pers. obs.). DNA SEQUENCES. — We generated a new sequence for the mitochondrial marker COI (651 bp) (Table 4)., Published as part of 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, pp. 607-738 in Zoosystema 42 (31) on page 626, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a31, http://zenodo.org/record/4382361, {"references":["SAUSSURE H. DE 1888. - Additamenta ad prodrorum Oedipodiorum. Memoires de la Societe de physique et d'histoire naturelle de Geneve 30 (1): 1 - 182.","KRAUSS H. A. 1893. - Vorlaufige Diagnosen der neuen Arten und Varietaten von Oran. Jahreshefte des Vereins fur vaterlandische Naturkunde in Wurttemberg, 49: XCV-XCVI.","VOSSELER J. 1902 a. - Beitrage zur Faunistik und Biologie der Orthopteren Algeriens und Tunesiens. Zoologische Jahrbucher. Abteilung fur Systematik, Geographie Und Biologie Der Tiere 16: 337 - 404.","MISTSHENKO L. 1936. - Revision of Paleartic species of the genus Sphingonotus Fieber (Orth. Acrid.). Eos. Madrid 12: 65 - 282.","CHOPARD L. 1943. - Faune de l'Empire francais: I OrthopteroIdes de l'Afrique du Nord. Librairie Larose, Paris, 450 p.","BEI- BIENKO G. Y. 1950. - Acrididae of the genus Sphingonotus Fieb. and their nearest kin (Orthoptera: Acrididae) [in Russian]. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie 31: 198 - 205.","HUSEMANN M., NAMKUNG S., HABEL J. C., DANLEY P. D. & HOCHKIRCH A. 2012. - Phylogenetic analyses of bandwinged grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae, Oedipodinae) reveal convergence of wing morphology. Zoologica Scripta 41 (5): 515 - 526. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1463 - 6409.2012.00548. x","ZERGOUN Y., GUEZOUL O., SEKOUR M., BOURAS N. & HOLTZ M. D. 2019. - Acridid (Orthoptera: Caelifera) diversity in agriculture ecosystems at three locations in the Mzab valley, Septentrional Sahara, Algeria. Journal of Insect Biodiversity 9 (1): 18 - 27. https: // doi. org / 10.12976 / jib / 2019.09.1.2","MOUSSI A., DEY L. S., PETIT D., ABBA A., KLESSER R. & HUSEMANN M. 2018. - First genetic data for band-winged grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Oedipodinae) of the Biskra region of Algeria with new records for the country. African zoology 53 (1): 31 - 40. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 15627020.2018.1463172","HAGGAG F. A. A., EL- MOURSY A. A., EL- HAWAGRY M. A. & ABDEL- DAYEM M. S. 2008. - Systematic studies on the subfamily Oedipodinae (Acrididae, Orthoptera) from Egypt, excluding genus Sphingnotus Fieber. Bulltein of the Entomological Society of Egypt 85: 121 - 161."]}

Leptopternis rothschildi Bolívar, 1913 ** (Fig. 39) Leptopternis rothschildi Bolívar, 1913: 611. TYPE SPECIMEN. — Algeria • ♂; holotype; Oued Nsa; MNCN. DISTRIBUTION. — Algeria (Korsakoff 1958). DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — None. MATERIAL EXAMINED.— Tunisia • 1 ♂; Tozeur, Gouifla; 26.VII.2017; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4686 • 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF 4687. NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Gafsa, Douwara; Tozeur, Gouifla. HABITAT. — This species lives in desertic sands and desertic steppe (H. Tlili, pers. obs.)., Published as part of 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, pp. 607-738 in Zoosystema 42 (31) on page 624, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a31, http://zenodo.org/record/4382361, {"references":["BOLIVAR I. 1913. - Ernst Hartert's expedition to the Central Western Sahara. XVII. Orthopteres. Novitates Zoologicae 20: 603 - 615.","KORSAKOFF M. N. 1958. - Notes sur quelques insectes de Beni- Ounif. Eos, Revista espanola de Entomologia 34: 135 - 148."]}

Oedipoda fuscocincta fuscocincta Lucas, 1849 ** (Fig. 43) Oedipoda fusco-cincta Lucas, 1849b: 31. Oedipoda fuscocincta – Walker 1870a: 737. — Bonnet & Finot 1885: 216. — Krauss 1892a: 148. — Finot 1895: 441. — Vosseler 1902a: 358. — Chopard 1943: 299. — Massa & Rizzo 1998: 286. Oedipoda fuscocincta var. – Finot 1895: 443. Oedipoda fuscocincta fuscocincta – Uvarov 1936: 130. TYPE SPECIMEN. — Algeria • ♂; holotype; MNHN. DISTRIBUTION. — Iberian Peninsula, France, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Canary Islands and Azores, Corsica, Sicily (Galvagni 2010); Egypt (Haggag et al. 2008). DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Recorded only from the north part of Tunisia (Bonnet & Finot 1885; Krauss 1892a; Finot 1895; Vosseler 1902a; Chopard 1943; Massa & Rizzo 1998). MATERIAL EXAMINED.— Algeria • 1♂; holotype; H. Lucas; MNHN-EO-CAELIF411. Tunisia • 1 ♀; Gafsa, Ben Younes Mountain; 17.VII.2016; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4692 • 2 ♀; same data; INAT. NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Gafsa, Ben Younes Mountain; Kasserine, Laayoune. HABITAT. — Subdesert areas and stony places (Usmani 2008); foothills (H. Tlili, pers. obs). DNA SEQUENCES. — We generated a new sequence for the mitochondrial marker COI (656 bp) (Table 4)., Published as part of 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, pp. 607-738 in Zoosystema 42 (31) on page 625, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a31, http://zenodo.org/record/4382361, {"references":["LUCAS P. H. 1849 a. - Exploration Scientifique de l'Algerie: Histoire Naturelle des Animaux Articules. Les Orthopteres 3: 1 - 39.","LUCAS P. H. 1849 b. - Histoire naturelle des animaux articules. Exploration scientifique de l'Algerie pendant les annees 1840, 1841, 1842. II. Imprimerie Nationale, Paris, 590 p.","WALKER F. 1870 a. - Catalogue of the specimens of Dermaptera Saltatoria in the collection of the British Museum. Part IV, p. 605 - 809. https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 8218871","BONNET E. & FINOT A. 1885. - Les Orthopteres de la regence de Tunis. Revue des sciences naturelles, 3 eme serie 4: 193 - 232, 333 - 365.","KRAUSS H. A. 1892 a. - Dermapteren und Orthopteren aus Tunis. Gesammelt von Dr. A. Konig. Wiener Entomologische Zeitung 11 (5): 143 - 150.","FINOT A. 1895. - Faune de l'Algerie et de la Tunisie. Insectes Orthopteres. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France 64: 57 - 120, 401 - 552, 655 - 676.","VOSSELER J. 1902 a. - Beitrage zur Faunistik und Biologie der Orthopteren Algeriens und Tunesiens. Zoologische Jahrbucher. Abteilung fur Systematik, Geographie Und Biologie Der Tiere 16: 337 - 404.","CHOPARD L. 1943. - Faune de l'Empire francais: I OrthopteroIdes de l'Afrique du Nord. Librairie Larose, Paris, 450 p.","MASSA B. & RIZZO M. C. 1998. - Orthoptera raccolti in Tunisia nel XIX secolo e conservati nel museo civico di storia naturale \" G. Doria \" di Genova. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale X. I.: 273 - 292.","UVAROV B. P. 1936. - Notes on the genus Oedipoda Linne (Orthoptera, Acrididae). The Annals and magazine of natural history (10) 18: 130 - 132. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222933608655180","GALVAGNI A. 2010. - Ricerche sulla fauna degli Ortotteroidei nella Sardegna sud-occidentale (Blattaria, Mantodea, Orthoptera, Phasmatodea). Atti dell' Accademia Roveretana degli Agiati 8 (10): 133 - 196.","HAGGAG F. A. A., EL- MOURSY A. A., EL- HAWAGRY M. A. & ABDEL- DAYEM M. S. 2008. - Systematic studies on the subfamily Oedipodinae (Acrididae, Orthoptera) from Egypt, excluding genus Sphingnotus Fieber. Bulltein of the Entomological Society of Egypt 85: 121 - 161.","USMANI M. K. 2008. - Studies on Acridoidea (Orthoptera) with some new records from Fezzan, Libya. Zootaxa 1946: 1 - 41. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 1946.1.1"]}

Pamphagus tunetanus Vosseler, 1902 (Fig. 68) Pamphagus marmoratus var. tunetanus Vosseler, 1902a: 391. Pamphagus tunetanus – Uvarov 1942 (1941): 347. — Chopard, 1943: 427. Acinipe tunetana Chopard, 1943: 378. — Descamps & Mounassif 1972: 248. TYPE SPECIMEN. — Tunisia • syntypes; MNHN. DISTRIBUTION. — Tunisia (Massa & Rizzo 1998); Libya (Massa 2013). DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Kerkennah Island, Sfax (Massa et al. 1993). MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Tunisia • 1 ♂; syntype; Djel (el) Bou Kornien; 9.V. (18)83 (identified as a type of Pamphagus tunetanus Vosseler, 1902 by M. Descamps & M. Mounassif, 1972 and a type of Acinipe tunetana Chopard, 1943 by M. Descamps, 1972); MNHN-EO-CAELIF22 • 1 ♂; Kasserine, Sbeitla; 15.IV.2016; M. Mahfoudhi; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4721 • 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4722 • 4 ♂, 1 ♀; same data; INAT • 1 ♀; Kasserine, Mehreza; 26.IV.2016; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF9151 • 1 ♀; same data; INAT. NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Kasserine, Sbeitla, Mehreza. HABITAT. — Foothills of grassy mountains (H. Tlili, pers. obs)., Published as part of 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, pp. 607-738 in Zoosystema 42 (31) on page 707, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a31, http://zenodo.org/record/4382361, {"references":["VOSSELER J. 1902 a. - Beitrage zur Faunistik und Biologie der Orthopteren Algeriens und Tunesiens. Zoologische Jahrbucher. Abteilung fur Systematik, Geographie Und Biologie Der Tiere 16: 337 - 404.","UVAROV B. P. 1942 [1941]. - New and less known southern Palaearctic Orthoptera. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 67 (3): 303 - 361.","UVAROV B. P. 1941. - Geographical variation in Scintharista notabilis (Walker 1870) (Orthoptera, Acrididae). Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London (B) 10: 91 - 97. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 3113.1941. tb 00701. x","CHOPARD L. 1943. - Faune de l'Empire francais: I OrthopteroIdes de l'Afrique du Nord. Librairie Larose, Paris, 450 p.","DESCAMPS M. & MOUNASSIF M. 1972. - Le complexe Orchamus, Paracinipe, Acinipe et Pamphagus (Acridomorpha, Pamphagidae). Acrida. 1: 247 - 303.","MASSA B. & RIZZO M. C. 1998. - Orthoptera raccolti in Tunisia nel XIX secolo e conservati nel museo civico di storia naturale \" G. Doria \" di Genova. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale X. I.: 273 - 292.","MASSA B. 2013. - Pamphagidae (Orthoptera: Caelifera) of North Africa: key to genera and the annotated check-list of species. Zootaxa 3700 (3): 435 - 475. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3700.3.7","MASSA B., LO- VALVO M., & LO- VERDE G. 1993. - Le specie del gen. Pamphagus Thunberg 1815 (Orthoptera Pamphagidae). Bollettino del Museo regionale di Scienze naturali di Torino 11: 445 - 486."]}

Aiolopus puissanti Defaut, 2005 ** (Fig. 32) Aiolopus puissanti Defaut, 2005b: 105. TYPE SPECIMEN. — Morocco • ♂; holotype; Sidi Bou Knadel; MNHN. DISTRIBUTION. — France, Espagne, Morocco (Defaut & Jaulin 2008); Portugal (Pina et al. 2017); Algeria (Zergoun et al. 2019); Iran (Hodjat et al. 2018). DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — None. MATERIAL EXAMINED.— Morocco • 1♂; holotype; Sidi Bou Knadel; 1.XI.1981; B. Defaut; MNHN-EO-CAELIF472. Tunisia • 1 ♂; Gafsa, Douwara; 20.VII.2016; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF 4679 • 1 ♀; Gafsa, El Guetar; 30.IV.2017; H. TliliMNHN-EO-CAELIF 7084 • 1♂; same data; 25.V.2017; MNHN-EO-CAELIF 7439. NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Gafsa, Douwara; Tozeur, Souani Ali. HABITAT. — Aiolopus puissanti almost always coexists in the same habitat with Aiolopus strepens strepens (H. Tlili, pers. obs). REMARKS. — The morphometric analysis of the North African specimens differs enough to distinguish the European specimens of A. thalassinus (Fabricius, 1871) as a different species (Defaut 2005b; Defaut & Jaulin 2008)., Published as part of 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, pp. 607-738 in Zoosystema 42 (31) on page 623, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a31, http://zenodo.org/record/4382361, {"references":["DEFAUT B. 2005 a. - Considerations taxonomiques sur Oedipoda arenaria Lucas. Materiaux Orthopteriques et Entomocenotiques 10: 25 - 33.","DEFAUT B. 2005 b. - Aiolopus puissanti, espece nouvelle proche d' Aiolopus thalassinus (Fabricius) (Acrididae, Oedipodinae). Materiaux entomocenotiques 10: 103 - 113.","DEFAUT B. & JAULIN S. 2008. - Nouvelles donnees taxonomiques et chorologiques sur Aiolopus puissanti Defaut et A. thalassinus (F.) (Orthoptera, Acrididae). Materiaux orthopteriques et entomocenotiques 13: 5 - 23.","PINA S., VASCONCELOS S., REINO L., SANTANA J., BEJA P., SANCHEZ- OLIVER J. S., CATRY I., MOREIRA F. & FERREIRA S. 2017. - The orthoptera of Castro Verde special protection area (Southern Portugal): new data and conservation value. ZooKeys 691: 19 - 48. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / zookeys. 691.14842","ZERGOUN Y., GUEZOUL O., SEKOUR M., BOURAS N. & HOLTZ M. D. 2019. - Acridid (Orthoptera: Caelifera) diversity in agriculture ecosystems at three locations in the Mzab valley, Septentrional Sahara, Algeria. Journal of Insect Biodiversity 9 (1): 18 - 27. https: // doi. org / 10.12976 / jib / 2019.09.1.2","HODJAT S. H., TORK M., SEIEDY M. & DEFAUT B. 2018. - A taxonomic review of recorded species of Caelifera (Orthoptera) in Iran. Materriaux Orthopteriques et Entomologiques 23: 35 - 75."]}

Heteracris annulosa annulosa Walker, 1870 (Fig. 20) Heteracris annulosa Walker, 1870a: 674. — Grunshaw 1991: 22. Pezotettix (Euprepocnemis) charpentieri Stål, 1873: 75. Euprepocnemis littoralis Bonnet & Finot, 1885: 232. Euprepocnemis annulosa – Kirby 1910: 560. Thisoicetrus brevipes Bolívar, 1936: 416. Thisoicetrus annulosus annulosus – Uvarov 1939: 379. — Chopard 1943: 410. Heteracris (Heteracris) annulosa – Massa & Fontana 1998: 78. Heteracris annulosa annulosa – Buzzetti et al. 2014: 23. TYPE SPECIMEN. — ♂; holotype; NHM. TYPE LOCALITY. — Unknown. DISTRIBUTION. — This species is distributed from North and Sub-Saharan Africa to Arabia (Grunshaw 1991). DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Djerba (Massa 1994); Nefta (Chopard 1943). MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Tunisia • 1 ♂; Tozeur, Souani Ali; 31.III.2016; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4667 • 1 ♂; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7438 • 1 ♀; Gafsa, El Guetar; 30.IV.2017; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4668 • 1 ♂; Gafsa, Douwara; 20.VII.2016; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7085 • 1♀; Gabes; 1898; M. Noualhier; MNHN-EO-CAELIF3756 • 1 ♀; Sfax; 1856; M. Ducouret; MNHN-EO-CAELIF3757. NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Gafsa, El Guetar; Tozeur, Souani Ali. HABITAT. — This species occurs in grasslands and oases (H. Tlili, pers. obs)., Published as part of 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, pp. 607-738 in Zoosystema 42 (31) on page 619, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a31, http://zenodo.org/record/4382361, {"references":["WALKER F. 1870 a. - Catalogue of the specimens of Dermaptera Saltatoria in the collection of the British Museum. Part IV, p. 605 - 809. https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 8218871","GRUNSHAW J. P. 1991. - A revision of the grasshopper genus Heteracris (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Eyprepocnemidinae). Natural Resources Institute Bulletin 38: 1 - 106. http: // gala. gre. ac. uk / id / eprint / 11108","STAL C. 1873. - Recensio orthopterorum. Revue critique des Orthopteres decrits par Linne, De Geer et Thunberg. Norstedt and Soner, Stockholm, part 1, 154 p.","BONNET E. & FINOT A. 1885. - Les Orthopteres de la regence de Tunis. Revue des sciences naturelles, 3 eme serie 4: 193 - 232, 333 - 365.","KIRBY W. F. 1910. - A Synonymic Catalogue of the Orthoptera. Vol. 3., Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 674 p.","BOLIVAR I. 1936. - Apuntes para la fauna entomologica de Ifni (Ortopteros). Eos. Madrid 11: 395 - 426.","UVAROV B. P. 1939. - A preliminary revision of the palaearctic species and subspecies of Thisoicetrus Br. W. (Orthoptera, Acrididae). Novitates Zoologicae 41: 377 - 382. https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 34053620","CHOPARD L. 1943. - Faune de l'Empire francais: I OrthopteroIdes de l'Afrique du Nord. Librairie Larose, Paris, 450 p.","MASSA B. & FONTANA P. 1998. - Middle Eastern Orthoptera (Tettigoniidae and Acridoidea) preserved in Italian Museums. Bolletino Museo civico Storia naturale Verona 22: 65 - 104.","BUZZETTI F., FONTANA P. & MASSA B. 2014. - Order Orthoptera. Additions to the Orthoptera fauna of the UAE. Arthropod Fauna of the United Arab Emirates. 5: 22 - 27.","MASSA B. 1994. - Note corologiche e biologiche su alcuni ortotteri mediterranei. Bollettino della Societa entomologica italiana Genova 126 (1): 3 - 8."]}

Dericorys millierei Bonnet & Finot, 1884 (Fig. 60) Dericorys millierei Bonnet & Finot, 1884: XXVII; 1885: 223. — Finot 1895: 529. — Vosseler 1902a: 394. — Chopard 1943: 391. — Massa & Rizzo 1998: 284. TYPE SPECIMEN. — Algeria • ♂; holotype; around Oran; MNHN. DISTRIBUTION. — Morocco (Bolívar 1914, Badih & Pascual 1998); Algeria (Mahloul et al. 2016); Tunisia (Tlili et al. 2019a); Libya (Massa 2009); Palestinian territories (Abusarhan et al. 2017). DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA.— Gabes, Djerba (Bonnet & Finot 1885; Finot 1895); Gafsa (Vosseler 1902a); Meknassy (Chopard 1943); Tamerza (Massa & Rizzo 1998). MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Algeria • 1♂; holotype; Oran; 11.VIII.1880; E. Bonnet & A. Finot; MNHN-EO-CAELIF173. Tunisia • 1♀; Tozeur, Gouifla; 31.III.2016; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4717 • 1 ♂; Mednine, Ben Guerdane; 19.IX.2017; M. Ben Chouikha; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7072. NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Tozeur, Gouifla. HABITAT. — Salty land near sebkha (Mahloul et al. 2016). REMARKS. — During our prospection we found just one specimen of D. millierei in a desert steppe sharing the same habitat and feeding on the same plant as D. albidula, Pamphagulus bodenheimeri dumonti Uvarov, 1929 (Dericorythidae: Dericorythinae), Tuarega insignis (Lucas, 1851) (Pamphagidae: Thrinchinae), Sphingonotus (Neosphingonotus) paradoxus (Acrididae: Oedipodinae), Sphingonotus (Sphingonotus) savignyi (Acrididae: Oedipodinae) and S. S. rubescens rubescens (Acrididae: Oedipodinae)., Published as part of 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, pp. 607-738 in Zoosystema 42 (31) on page 705, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a31, http://zenodo.org/record/4382361, {"references":["BONNET E. & FINOT A. 1884. - Trois nouvelles especes d'orthopteres de la regence de Tunis. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France, 4 (6): XXV-XXVIII.","FINOT A. 1895. - Faune de l'Algerie et de la Tunisie. Insectes Orthopteres. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France 64: 57 - 120, 401 - 552, 655 - 676.","VOSSELER J. 1902 a. - Beitrage zur Faunistik und Biologie der Orthopteren Algeriens und Tunesiens. Zoologische Jahrbucher. Abteilung fur Systematik, Geographie Und Biologie Der Tiere 16: 337 - 404.","CHOPARD L. 1943. - Faune de l'Empire francais: I OrthopteroIdes de l'Afrique du Nord. Librairie Larose, Paris, 450 p.","MASSA B. & RIZZO M. C. 1998. - Orthoptera raccolti in Tunisia nel XIX secolo e conservati nel museo civico di storia naturale \" G. Doria \" di Genova. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale X. I.: 273 - 292.","BOLIVAR I. 1914. - Dermapteros y ortopteros de Marruecos. Memorias de la Real Sociedad Espanola de Historia Natural. 8 (5): 157 - 238.","BADIH A. & PASCUAL F. 1998. - Donnees preliminaires sur les Celiferes du nord du Maroc (Orthoptera, Caelifera). Nouvelle Revue d'Entomologie: 131 - 150.","MAHLOUL S., HARRAT A. & PETIT D. 2016. - Diversity of grasshoppers (Caelifera) recorded on the banks of a Ramsar listed temporary salt lake in Algeria. European Journal of Entomology 113: 158 - 172. https: // doi. org / 10.14411 / eje. 2016.020","TLILI H., ABDELLAOUI K., BEN CHOUIKHA M., MHAFDHI M., JEM- MAZI A., AMMAR M., & DESUTTER- GRANDCOLAS L. 2019 a. - First record of Dericorys albidula Serville, 1838 (Orthoptera: Dericorythidae) inTunisia and Libya. Zootaxa 4551 (3): 385 - 393. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4551.3.7","MASSA B. 2009. - Annotated check-list of Orthoptera of Libya. Journal of Orthoptera Research 18 (1): 75 - 94. https: // doi. org / 10.1665 / 034.018.0109","ABUSARHAN M., AMR Z. S., GHATTAS M., HANDAL E. N. & QUM- SIYEH M. B. 2017. - Grasshoppers and locusts (Orthoptera: Caelifera) from the Palestinian territories at the Palestine Museum of Natural History. Zoology and Ecology 27 (2): 143 - 155. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 21658005.2017.1313807","BONNET E. & FINOT A. 1885. - Les Orthopteres de la regence de Tunis. Revue des sciences naturelles, 3 eme serie 4: 193 - 232, 333 - 365.","UVAROV B. P. 1929. - Orthoptera collected in Sinai by Dr. F. S. Bodenkeimer and Dr. O. Theodor. In Ergebn. Sinai-Exped. Leipzig: 90 - 103.","LUCAS P. H. 1851. - Quelques remarques geographiques sur les Acridides qui habitent les possessions francaises du Nord de l'Afrique et description de deux especes nouvelles. Annales de la Societe entomologique de France 9 (2): 349 - 383."]}

Sphingonotus (Sphingonotus) octofasciatus (Serville, 1838) (Fig. 52) Oedipoda octofasciata Serville, 1838: 728. Acrotylus octofasciatus – Bonnet & Finot 1885: 215. Sphingonotus octofasciatus – Finot 1895: 477. — Vosseler 1902a: 379. Sphingonotus (Sphingonotus) octofasciatus . — Shishodia et al. 2010: 101 – Husemann et al. 2015: 5. TYPE SPECIMEN. — Egypt • ♀; holotype; MNHN. DISTRIBUTION. — Morocco (Defaut & François 2018); Algeria (Moussi et al. 2011); Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Palestine, Iran, Turkestan (Chopard 1943); Palestine (Abusarhan et al. 2017); Spain (Badih et al. 1995); India (Shishodia et al. 2010). DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Bled Segui, Bir Beni Zid, oases of Djerid (Bonnet & Finot 1885); Gafsa (Vosseler 1902a; Husemann et al. 2015). MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Egypt • 1 ♀; holotype; 1802; Bové; MNHN-EO-CAELIF438. Tunisia • 1 ♂; Tozeur, Degache; 29.IV.2017; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF 4707 • 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4708 • 1 ♂; same data; INAT. NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Gafsa, Douwara; Tozeur, Degache. HABITAT. — Rocky hills (Krauss 1902); foothills (H. Tlili, pers. obs.). DNA SEQUENCES. — We generated a new sequence for the mitochondrial marker ND2 (454 bp) (Table 4)., Published as part of 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, pp. 607-738 in Zoosystema 42 (31) on page 703, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a31, http://zenodo.org/record/4382361, {"references":["SERVILLE J. G. AUDINET 1838 [1839]. - Histoire naturelle des insectes. Orthopteres. Libraire Encyclopedique de Roret, Paris, 776 p.","BONNET E. & FINOT A. 1885. - Les Orthopteres de la regence de Tunis. Revue des sciences naturelles, 3 eme serie 4: 193 - 232, 333 - 365.","FINOT A. 1895. - Faune de l'Algerie et de la Tunisie. Insectes Orthopteres. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France 64: 57 - 120, 401 - 552, 655 - 676.","VOSSELER J. 1902 a. - Beitrage zur Faunistik und Biologie der Orthopteren Algeriens und Tunesiens. Zoologische Jahrbucher. Abteilung fur Systematik, Geographie Und Biologie Der Tiere 16: 337 - 404.","SHISHODIA M. S., CHANDRA K. & GUPTA S. K. 2010. - An annotated checklist of Orthoptera (Insecta) from India. Zoological Survey of India, Miscellaneous Publication, Occasional Paper 314: 1 - 366.","HUSEMANN M., HABEL J. C., NAMKUNG S., HOCHKIRCH A., OTTE D. & DANLEY P. D. 2015. - Molecular evidence for an old world origin of Galapagos and Caribbean band-winged grasshoppers (Acrididae: Oedipodinae: Sphingonotus). PloS One 10 (2), e 0118208. https: // doi. org / 10.1371 / journal. pone. 0118208","DEFAUT B. & FRANCOIS A. 2018. - Evaluation densitaires des Orthopteres en moyenne-Moulouya (Maroc oriental) (Ensifera, Caelifera, Mantodea). Materiaux Orthopteriques et entomocenotiques 23: 149 - 168.","MOUSSI A., ABBA A., HARRAT A. & PETIT D. 2011. - Desert acridian fauna (Orthoptera, Acridomorpha): Comparison between steppic and oasian habitats in Algeria. Comptes Rendus de Biologie 334 (2): 158 - 167. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. crvi. 2010.12.001","CHOPARD L. 1943. - Faune de l'Empire francais: I OrthopteroIdes de l'Afrique du Nord. Librairie Larose, Paris, 450 p.","ABUSARHAN M., AMR Z. S., GHATTAS M., HANDAL E. N. & QUM- SIYEH M. B. 2017. - Grasshoppers and locusts (Orthoptera: Caelifera) from the Palestinian territories at the Palestine Museum of Natural History. Zoology and Ecology 27 (2): 143 - 155. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 21658005.2017.1313807","BADIH A., SANCHEZ- CASADO J. F., BARRANCO P. & PASCUAL F. 1995. - Sphingonotus octofasciatus (Serville, 1839) in Europe (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Zoologica Baetica 6: 157 - 163.","KRAUSS H. A. 1902. - Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Orthopteren- Fauna der Sahara. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Koniglichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 52: 230 - 254. https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 13332775"]}

Tuarega insignis (Lucas, 1851) (Fig. 73) Oedipoda insignis Lucas, 1851: 370. Eremobia jaminii Lucas, 1853: LXV. Eremobia insignis ��� Bonnet & Finot 1885: 221. Eremocharis insignis ��� Saussure 1888: 134. ��� Chopard 1943: 334. Tuarega insignis ��� Uvarov 1943: 47. ��� Massa & Rizzo 1998: 280. ��� Massa 2013: 442. Tuarega ouarzazatensis Yin X. -C., Husemann & Xin-Jiang Li, 2011:539. Tuarega sahara Yin & Li, 2011: 98. Tuarega parisi Yin & Li, 2011: 100. TYPE SPECIMEN. ��� Algeria ��� ♀; type probably lost (H. Tlili, pers. obs.); Kef Oum Teboul; MNHN. DISTRIBUTION. ��� Morocco (Chopard 1943); Algeria (Zergoun et al. 2018); Tunisia (Massa & Rizzo 1998); Libya (Massa 1998); Mauritania, Chad (Mestre & Chiffaud 2006). DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. ��� The Great Chotts of Kebili (Chopard 1943); Arid and desert environments (Massa & Rizzo 1998); Sfax, Sidi Mansour; Gafsa; Gabes: Bled Segui; Bou Hedma mountain (Massa 2013). MATERIAL EXAMINED. ��� Tunisia ��� 1♂; Kebili, Essagui; 24.VI.2017; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4727 ��� 1 ♀; Tozeur, Degache; 29.IV.2017; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4728 ��� 1 ♀; same data; INAT ��� 1♂; Gafsa, Ben Younes Mountain; 26.IV.2019; A. Ahmadi; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7037 ��� 3 larva; Gafsa, Sened; 16.I.2016; O. Hamed; INAT. NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. ��� Gafsa, Sened, El Guetar; Tozeur, Gouifla, Degache; Kebili, Essagui. HABITAT. ��� Arid and desertic environments (Massa & Rizzo 1998). DNA SEQUENCES. ��� We generated a new sequence for the mitochondrial marker COI (658 bp) (Table 4)., Published as part of 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, pp. 607-738 in Zoosystema 42 (31) on page 709, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a31, http://zenodo.org/record/4382361, {"references":["LUCAS P. H. 1851. - Quelques remarques geographiques sur les Acridides qui habitent les possessions francaises du Nord de l'Afrique et description de deux especes nouvelles. Annales de la Societe entomologique de France 9 (2): 349 - 383.","BONNET E. & FINOT A. 1885. - Les Orthopteres de la regence de Tunis. Revue des sciences naturelles, 3 eme serie 4: 193 - 232, 333 - 365.","SAUSSURE H. DE 1888. - Additamenta ad prodrorum Oedipodiorum. Memoires de la Societe de physique et d'histoire naturelle de Geneve 30 (1): 1 - 182.","CHOPARD L. 1943. - Faune de l'Empire francais: I OrthopteroIdes de l'Afrique du Nord. Librairie Larose, Paris, 450 p.","UVAROV B. P. 1943. - The tribe Trinchini of the subfamily Pamphaginae, and the interrelations of the acrid subfamilies (Orthoptera). The Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 93 (1): 1 - 72.","MASSA B. & RIZZO M. C. 1998. - Orthoptera raccolti in Tunisia nel XIX secolo e conservati nel museo civico di storia naturale \" G. Doria \" di Genova. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale X. I.: 273 - 292.","MASSA B. 2013. - Pamphagidae (Orthoptera: Caelifera) of North Africa: key to genera and the annotated check-list of species. Zootaxa 3700 (3): 435 - 475. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3700.3.7","YIN X. - C. & XIN- JIANG LI 2011. - A taxonomic study of the genus Tuarega Uvarov, 1943 with descriptions of two new species from Sahara (Orthoptera: Acridoidea, Pamphagidae, Prionotropisinae). Acta Entomologica Sinica 54 (1): 97 - 103.","ZERGOUN Y., GUEZOUL O., SEKOUR M., BOURAS N. & HOLTZ M. D. 2018. - Effects of Temperatures and Rainfall Variability on the Abundance and Diversity of Caelifera (Insecta, Orthoptera) in Three Natural Environments in the Mzab Valley, Septentrional Sahara (Algeria). Tunisian Journal of Plant Protection 13 (2): 217 - 228.","MASSA B. 1998. - Attuali conoscenze sugli Ortotteri della Libia (Insecta Orthoptera). Il Naturalista Siciliano 22: 235 - 320.","MESTRE J. & CHIFFAUD J. 2006. - Catalogue et atlas des acridiens d'Afrique de l'Ouest, 349 p."]}

Pamphagulus bodenheimeri dumonti Uvarov, 1929 (Fig. 61) Pamphagulus bodenheimeri dumonti Uvarov, 1929: 101. — Chopard 1943: 384. — Tlili et al. 2019a: 391. TYPE SPECIMEN. — Tunisia • ♀; holotype; Maknassy; MNHN. DISTRIBUTION. — Algeria (Moussi et al. 2014); Tunisia (Tlili et al. 2019a); Libya (Massa 1998). DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Meknassy (Uvarov 1929); Tozeur, Gouifla (Tlili et al. 2019a). MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Tunisia • 1 ♀; holotype; Maknassy; VII.1927; C. Duniad; MNHN-EO-CAELIF156 • 1 ♂; Tozeur, Gouifla; 28.IV.2016; M. Ammar; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4718. NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Tozeur, Gouifla. HABITAT. — Desertic steppe and sandy areas (Tlili et al. 2019a). REMARKS. — This species is very rare (Tlili et al. 2019a). DNA SEQUENCES. — We generated new sequences for the mitochondrial marker COI (673 bp) and the nuclear gene H3 (330 bp) (Table 4)., Published as part of 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, pp. 607-738 in Zoosystema 42 (31) on page 705, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a31, http://zenodo.org/record/4382361, {"references":["UVAROV B. P. 1929. - Orthoptera collected in Sinai by Dr. F. S. Bodenkeimer and Dr. O. Theodor. In Ergebn. Sinai-Exped. Leipzig: 90 - 103.","CHOPARD L. 1943. - Faune de l'Empire francais: I OrthopteroIdes de l'Afrique du Nord. Librairie Larose, Paris, 450 p.","TLILI H., ABDELLAOUI K., BEN CHOUIKHA M., MHAFDHI M., JEM- MAZI A., AMMAR M., & DESUTTER- GRANDCOLAS L. 2019 a. - First record of Dericorys albidula Serville, 1838 (Orthoptera: Dericorythidae) inTunisia and Libya. Zootaxa 4551 (3): 385 - 393. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4551.3.7","MOUSSI A., ABBA A., HARRAT A. & PETIT D. 2014. - Description of Dociostaurus biskrensis sp. nov. and male allotypes of four species: Pamphagulus bodenheimeri dumonti, P. uvarovi, Sphingonotus ebneri and Notopleura pygmaea (Orthoptera: Acridoidea) in the region of Biskra, Algeria. Zootaxa 3755 (4): 379 - 390. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3755.4.4","MASSA B. 1998. - Attuali conoscenze sugli Ortotteri della Libia (Insecta Orthoptera). Il Naturalista Siciliano 22: 235 - 320."]}

Oedaleus decorus decorus (Germar, 1825) (Fig. 41) Acrydium decorum Germar, 1826: pl. 17. Oedaleus nigrofasciatus (De Geer, 1773) – Vosseler 1902a: 359 (misidentification). Oedaleus decorus – Uvarov 1923b: 69. — Chopard 1943: 295. Oedaleus decorus decorus – Ritchie 1981: 124. TYPE SPECIMEN. — Russia • ♂; neotype (Ritchie 1981); Southern Russia, Podolia; NHM. DISTRIBUTION. — Species widespread throughout Africa and the Mediterranean basin (Ritchie 1981); Southern Europe and further eastwards into Asia (Willemse et al. 2018). DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Gafsa (Vosseler 1902a). MATERIAL EXAMINED.— Tunisia • 1♂; Gafsa, Douwara; 20.VII.2016; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4689 • 1 ♀; Tabarka; 5.VII.1889; MNHN-EO-CAELIF2596. Algeria • 1 ♀; Oran, 5.VII.1979; MNHN-EO-CAELIF9115. NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Gafsa, Douwara. HABITAT. — Dry and open habitats (Usmani 2008)., Published as part of 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, pp. 607-738 in Zoosystema 42 (31) on page 625, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a31, http://zenodo.org/record/4382361, {"references":["GERMAR E. F. 1826. - Fauna Insectorum Europae. 15 pl. 10.","VOSSELER J. 1902 a. - Beitrage zur Faunistik und Biologie der Orthopteren Algeriens und Tunesiens. Zoologische Jahrbucher. Abteilung fur Systematik, Geographie Und Biologie Der Tiere 16: 337 - 404.","UVAROV B. P. 1923 b. - Records and descriptions of Orthoptera from North-West Africa. Novitates zoologicae 30: 59 - 78. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 28982","CHOPARD L. 1943. - Faune de l'Empire francais: I OrthopteroIdes de l'Afrique du Nord. Librairie Larose, Paris, 450 p.","RITCHIE J. 1981. - A taxonomic revision of the genus Oedaleus Fieber (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology series 40 (3): 83 - 183. https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 2247032","WILLEMSE L. P. M., KLEUKERS R. M. J. C. & ODE B. 2018. - The grasshoppers of Greece. EIS Kenniscentrum Insecten en andere ongewervelden. 440 p.","USMANI M. K. 2008. - Studies on Acridoidea (Orthoptera) with some new records from Fezzan, Libya. Zootaxa 1946: 1 - 41. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 1946.1.1"]}

Tenuitarsus angustus (Blanchard, 1836) ** (Fig. 76) 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)., Published as part of 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, pp. 607-738 in Zoosystema 42 (31) on page 710, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a31, http://zenodo.org/record/4382361, {"references":["BLANCHARD E. 1836. - Monographie du genre Ommexecha de la famille des Acridiens. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France 5: 603 - 624.","JACOBSON G. G. R. & BIANCHI V. L. 1902. - Orthoptera and Pseudoneoptera of the Russian Empire. Izdanie A. F. Devriena, St. Petersburg, 952 p.","UVAROV B. P. 1924. - Some new and interesting Orthoptera in the collection of the Ministry of Agriculture. Bulletin - Ministry of Agriculture, Technical and Scientific Service 41: 1 - 41.","DEFAUT B. & FRANCOIS A. 2018. - Evaluation densitaires des Orthopteres en moyenne-Moulouya (Maroc oriental) (Ensifera, Caelifera, Mantodea). Materiaux Orthopteriques et entomocenotiques 23: 149 - 168.","ZERGOUN Y., GUEZOUL O., SEKOUR M., BOURAS N. & HOLTZ M. D. 2019. - Acridid (Orthoptera: Caelifera) diversity in agriculture ecosystems at three locations in the Mzab valley, Septentrional Sahara, Algeria. Journal of Insect Biodiversity 9 (1): 18 - 27. https: // doi. org / 10.12976 / jib / 2019.09.1.2","MASSA B. 2009. - Annotated check-list of Orthoptera of Libya. Journal of Orthoptera Research 18 (1): 75 - 94. https: // doi. org / 10.1665 / 034.018.0109","MESTRE J. & CHIFFAUD J. 2006. - Catalogue et atlas des acridiens d'Afrique de l'Ouest, 349 p.","SAUSSURE H. DE 1889. - Note sur quelques Oedipodiens en par- ticulier sur les genres appartenant au type de Sphingonotus. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 8: 87 - 97","CHOPARD L. 1943. - Faune de l'Empire francais: I OrthopteroIdes de l'Afrique du Nord. Librairie Larose, Paris, 450 p.","UVAROV B. P. 1921 a. - A contribution to our knowledge of the Orthoptera Acridoidea of Mesopotamia and N. W. Persia. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 27: 803 - 812.","HODJAT S. H., TORK M., SEIEDY M. & DEFAUT B. 2018. - A taxonomic review of recorded species of Caelifera (Orthoptera) in Iran. Materriaux Orthopteriques et Entomologiques 23: 35 - 75.","BUZZETTI F., FONTANA P. & MASSA B. 2014. - Order Orthoptera. Additions to the Orthoptera fauna of the UAE. Arthropod Fauna of the United Arab Emirates. 5: 22 - 27.","MORALES AGACINO E. 1945. - Algunos datos sobre Orthopteroides del Sahara Occidental. Eos, Revista espanola de Entomologia 20 (3 - 4): 309 - 339. http: // hdl. handle. net / 10261 / 148685","VOSSELER J. 1902 a. - Beitrage zur Faunistik und Biologie der Orthopteren Algeriens und Tunesiens. Zoologische Jahrbucher. Abteilung fur Systematik, Geographie Und Biologie Der Tiere 16: 337 - 404.","MOUSSI A., ABBA A., HARRAT A. & PETIT D. 2014. - Description of Dociostaurus biskrensis sp. nov. and male allotypes of four species: Pamphagulus bodenheimeri dumonti, P. uvarovi, Sphingonotus ebneri and Notopleura pygmaea (Orthoptera: Acridoidea) in the region of Biskra, Algeria. Zootaxa 3755 (4): 379 - 390. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3755.4.4"]}

KEY TO FAMILIES, SUBFAMILIES, GENERA, AND SPECIES FOR THE SPECIES FROM CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN OF TUNISIA 1. Pronotum narrowed and prolonged backward to or beyond the tip of abdomen; arolium between the claws of tarsus absent (Fig. 81A)........................................................................................... Tetrigidae Rambur, 1838 (Only one genus and one species in Tunisia: Paratettix meridionalis (Rambur, 1838), Fig. 77). — Pronotum neither narrowed, nor prolonged backward to or beyond the tip of abdomen; arolium between the claws of tarsus variable in size but always present (Fig. 81 B-F)................................................................... 2. 2. Head from above with fastigial furrow (Fig. 78A, B); fastigium of the vertex sometimes with a simple concave cicatrix (Fig. 78C); hind femur lower basal lobe longer than upper lobe (Fig. Fig. 88 A-E).......................... 3. — Head without a fastigial furrow; fastigium of the vertex without a cicatrix (Fig. 78 D-F); hind femur lower basal lobe shorter or seldom as long as the upper lobe (Fig. 88 F-K).................................................................... 5. 3. Head conical, frons strongly curved in side view (Fig. 80A); apical fastigial areolae almost always present (Fig. 78C); Krauss’s organ absent; upper carina of femur smooth and without tubercles or spines (Fig. 78E)..................................................................................................... Pyrgomorphidae Brunner, 1874.......... 14. — Head of variable shape, but not acutely conical (Fig. 80B); apical fastigial areolae absent (Fig. 78A, B); Krauss’s organ almost always present (Fig. 92A, B); upper carina of femur almost rough with tubercles or spines (Fig. 88 B-C).................................................................... Pamphagidae Burmeister, 1840.......... 4. 4. Elytra and wings fully developed................................................................ Thrinchinae Stål, 1876.......... 15. — Apterous or squamipterous species................................................ Pamphaginae Burmeister, 1840.......... 16. 5. Pronotum with a strong crest in the prozona (Fig. 80C); posterior tibia almost arched (Fig. 89A)....................................................................................................... Dericorythidae Jacobson & Bianchi, 1905.......... 22. — Pronotum without a strong crest in the prozona (Fig. 80 D-F); posterior tibia not arched (Fig. 89B)............................................................................................................................... Acrididae MacLeay, 1821.......... 6. 6. Prosternal process present (Fig. 82A).......................................................................................................... 7. — Prosternal process absent (Fig. 82B)......................................................................................................... 10. 7. Body cylindrical; head strongly elongate and almost conical; pronotum without carinae...................................................................................................................................................... Tropidopolinae Jacobson, 1905 (only one genus and one species known in Tunisa, Tropidopola cylindrica cylindrica (Marschall, 1836), Fig. 58). — Body of variable shape but not cylindrical; head with variable shape but not elongated or conical; pronotum with carinae................................................................................................................................................ 8. 8. Size large (40-70 mm); pronotum almost subcylindrical or tectiform, median carina incised by three sulci; lateral carena of pronotum absent........................................................ Cyrtacanthacridinae Kirby, 1910.......... 23. — Size small to medium ( 9. Hind femur very thick (Fig. 88F); hind wings basally light pink; male cerci large and pincer-shaped (Fig. 95A)......................................................................................................... Calliptaminae Jacobson, 1905.......... 56. — Hind femur slender (Fig. 88 G-H); hind wings hyaline; male cerci small and not pincer-shaped (Fig. 95B)........................................................................... Eyprepocnemidinae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893.......... 24. 10. Frons very oblique (Fig. 80 E-F)............................................................. Acridinae MacLeay, 1821.......... 25. — Frons not very oblique (Fig. 80D).............................................................................................................. 11. 11. Inner side of hind femur with a stridulatory mechanism (Fig. 90)............................................................ 12. — Inner side of hind femur without a stridulatory mechanism..................................................................... 13. 12. Arolium between tarsal claws very small or absent; subgenital plate very short (Fig. 94C); male cercus short and curved (Fig. 94A).................................................................. Eremogryllinae Dirsh,1956.......... 27. — Arolium between tarsal claws present and large; male cercus of different shape but not short and curved............................................................................................................... Gomphocerinae Fieber, 1853.......... 28. 13. Hind wings transparent; furcal suture of mesosternum curved backward (Fig. 87A, B).................................................................................................................... Egnatiinae Bey-Bienko & Mistshenko,1951.......... 55. (Only one genus known in Tunisia, Egnatioides Vosseler, 1902). — Hind wings almost always colored or with a black band; furcal suture of mesosternum not curved backward (Fig. 87C, D)............................................................................................................... Oedipodinae Walker, 1871.......... 30. 14. Species sand-colored, spotted with brown and white; middle leg twice as long as the foreleg; spurs of hind tibia strongly elongated (Fig. 91A).................................................................................. Tenuitarsus Bolívar, 1904 (only one species known in Tunisia, Tenuitarsus angustus (Blanchard, 1836), Fig. 76). — Colour variable, brownish or greenish; middle leg not elongate; spurs of hind tibia not elongated (Fig. 91B)............................................................................................................ Pyrgomorpha Serville, 1838.......... 42. 15. Fastigial furrow obliterated; pronotum depressed; hind wing tinted with yellowish with a black band................................................................................................................................................. Tuarega Uvarov, 1943. (Only one species known in Tunisia, Tuarega insignis (Lucas, 1851), Fig. 73). — Fastigial furrow well marked; pronotum in prozona highly raised; hind wing tinted with pinkish in male, sometimes transparent in female; with a black band in both sexes........................... Tmethis Fieber, 1853 (only one species known in Tunisia, Tmethis cisti (Fabricius, 1787), Fig. 72). 16. Size small; Krauss’s organ absent; hind border of pronotum with spines; wings absent or very small........ 17. — Size medium to large; Krauss’s organ present (Fig. 90A, B); hind border of pronotum without spines; wings present............................................................................................................................................ 18. 17. Hind wings absent; upper carina of hind femora provided with spines (Fig. 88C).......... Finotia Bonnet, 1884 (only one species known in Tunisia, Finotia spinicollis Bonnet, 1884, Fig. 65). — Hind wings present; upper carina of hind femora undulate and slightly decline toward the apex (Fig. 88D).................................................................................................................................. Ocneridia Bolívar, 1912. (only one species known in Tunisia, Ocneridia nigropunctata (Lucas, 1849), Fig. 66). 18. Prosternum process with pointed tubercles (Fig. 83A, B).......................................................................... 19. — Prosternum process without pointed tubercles.......................................................................................... 20. 19. Prosternum process with two pointed tubercles (Fig. 83A).................................. Euryparyphes Fischer, 1853. (Only one species known in Tunisia, Euryparyphes sitifensis (Brisout de Barneville, 1854), Fig. 64). — Prosternum process with four pointed tubercles (Fig. 83B)........................ Paraeuryparyphes La Greca, 1993. (Only one species known in Tunisia, Paraeuryparyphes quadridentatus (Brisout de Barneville, 1852), Fig. 71). 20. Hind femora with a pre-genicular narrowing less evident; colour variable, between grey and greenish, mottled with white; pronotum highly tectiform (Fig. 80B); integument slightly rugose; hind tibiae hairless.......................................................................................................... Pamphagus Thunberg, 1815.......... 44. — Hind femurs slender, with a pre-genicular narrowing more evident; colour brownish; pronotum less tectiform; integument strongly rugose; hind tibiae hairy............................................................................................. 21. 21. Male subgenital plate not divided into two parts (Fig. 93A); hind border of epiphallus monolobate................................................................................................................................... Acinipe Rambur, 1838.......... 43. — Male subgenital plate divided into two parts (Fig. 93B); hind border of epiphallus bilobate (Fig. 96A)....................................................................................... Paracinipe Descamps & Mounassif, 1972.......... 45. 22. Size small (9.6-19.3 mm); elytra, wings and tympanum absent............................ Pamphagulus Uvarov, 1929 (only one species known in Tunisia, Pamphagulus bodenheimeri dumonti Uvarov, 1929, Fig. 61). — Size medium to large (> 20mm); elytra and wings fully developed; tympanum present.......................................................................................................................................... Dericorys Serville, 1838.......... 46. 23. Ash-brown colored; pronotum tectiform, constricted; median carina slightly raised; wings with a large brown fascia............................................................................................................................... Anacridium Uvarov, 1923 (only one species known in Tunisia, Anacridium aegyptium (Linnaeus, 1764), Fig. 11). — Sand colored; pronotum subcylindrical, median carina not raised; wings transparent....... Schistocerca Stål, 1873 (only one species known in Tunisia, Schistocerca gregaria gregaria (Forskål, 1775), Fig. 12). 24. Presence of a black ‘tear’ under the eyes; hind leg colourful; hind femur outer side with a longitudinal black band (Fig. 88G); hind femur inner and outer sides without black spots............... Eyprepocnemis Fieber, 1853 (only one species known in Tunisia, Eyprepocnemis plorans plorans (Charpentier, 1825), Fig. 18). — No black ‘tear’ under the eyes; hind tibia and tarsus red; hind femur outer side without a longitudinal black band; hind femur inner and outer sides with two black spot (Fig. 88H)..... Heteracris Walker, 1870.......... 47. 25. Body large (> 40mm); head strongly elongate (Fig. 80F)............................................................................ 26. — Body of small size (Duroniella Bolívar, 1908 (only one species known in southern Tunisia, Duroniella lucasii (Bolívar, 1881), Fig. 4). 26. Lateral carina of pronotum straight and slightly incurved in metazona; wings greenish in male and female without small macules; inner face of male and female femora without stridulatory comb; arolium large (Fig. 81F)............................................................................................................................................ Acrida Linnaeus, 1758 (only one species known in Tunisia Acrida turrita (Linnaeus, 1758), Fig. 3). — Lateral carina of pronotum incurved down in metazona; wing base pink and purplish in female, greenish in male, with several small macules in both sexes; inner side of male and female femora with a stridulatory comb (Fig. 90A); arolium small to medium size (Fig. 81 D-E)............ Truxalis Fabricius, 1775.......... 50. 27. Middle leg twice as long as fore leg; inner spurs of hind tibia strongly elongated (Fig. 91C); arolium vestigial.............................................................................................................................. Eremogryllus Krauss, 1902 (only one species known in Tunisia Eremogryllus hammadae Krauss, 1902, Fig. 15). — Middle leg not elongate; spurs of hind tibia short; claws short; arolium about half the claws length................................................................................................................................. Notopleura Krauss, 1902..........51. 28. Antenna ensiform; head conical................................................................... Ochrilidia Stål, 1873.......... 52. — Antenna filiform; head subconical............................................................................................................. 29. 29. Lateral carina of pronotum angularly incurved; dorsum with X-shaped (Fig. 79A)............................................................................................................................................. Dociostaurus Fieber, 1853.......... 54. — Lateral carina slightly incurved; dorsum without X-shaped.................................... Stenohippus Uvarov, 1926 (only one species known in Tunisia Stenohippus mundus (Walker, 1871), Fig. 28). 30. Median carina strongly tectiform in prozona; upper carina of femur drop in apical part (Fig. 88I)................................................................................................................................. Oedipoda Latreille, 1829.......... 59. — Median carina with different shape but not only tectiform in prozona; upper carina of femur never drop in apical part (Fig. 88J)..................................................................................................................................... 31. 31. Median carina tectiform in prozona and metazona.................................................................................... 32. — Median carina with different shape but not tectiform in both parts of pronotum...................................... 33. 32. Pronotum above with X-shaped (Fig. 79B); median carina not interrupted by transverse posterior groove; hind wings yellowish with one dark fascia............................................. Oedaleus Fieber, 1853.......... 60. — Pronotum above without X-shaped; median carina interrupted by transverse posterior groove; hind wings brightly coloured by red at base with one or two dark fascia.................................................................................. 34. 33. Size medium; body thickset; hind wings brightly coloured and red at base with long dark fascia.................................................................................................................... Scintharista Saussure, 1884 (only one species known in Tunisia Scintharista notabilis notabilis (Walker, 1870), Fig. 45). — Small to medium size; body not thickset; hind wings brightly coloured at base by red in female and yellow in male, with short dark fascia in both sexes............................................................... Mioscirtus Saussure, 1888 (only one species known in Tunisia Mioscirtus wagneri wagneri (Eversmann, 1859), Fig. 40). 34. Inner spurs of hind tibia longer than the first tarsal segment (Fig. 92 E-F)................................................. 35. — Inner spurs of hind tibia never exceeding the half-length of first basal tarsal segment (Fig. 91D); slightly longer than outer spurs........................................................................................................................................ 36. 35. Median carina of pronotum distinct in prozona; inner spurs of hind tibia slightly shorter than half-length of basal tarsal segment (Fig. 91E)............................................................................................................................................................................................................... Leptopternis Saussure, 1884.......... 61. — Median carina in prozona obliterate; spurs of hind tibia longer than half-length of basal tarsal segment (Fig. 91F)............................................................................................................ Hyalorrhipis Saussure, 1884 (only one species known in Tunisia Hyalorrhipis calcarata (Vosseler, 1902), Fig. 37). 36. Fastigium of vertex above concave with well developed lateral carinula; fastigial faveoale trapezoidal (Fig. 78E).................................................................................................................... Aiolopus Fieber, 1853.......... 62. — Fastigium of vertex above slightly concave, lateral carinula obliterate; fastigial faveoale of different shaped but not trapezoidal......................................................................................................................................... 37. 37. Wing strongly widened, venation strongly thickened; third vannal vein bifurcate at apex (Fig. 86).............................................................................................................................. Helioscirtus Saussure, 1884.......... 63. — Wing slightly widened, venation normal and not strongly thickened; third vannal vein not bifurcate....... 38. 38. Pronotum short and strongly saddle-shaped............................................... Acrotylus Fieber, 1853.......... 64. — Pronotum not short and slightly saddle-shaped or different shape............................................................. 39. 39. Branches of cubital vein of elytron incurved (Fig. 84A).........................................

Sphingonotus (Sphingonotus) rubescens rubescens (Walker, 1870) (Fig. 53) Oedipoda rubescens Walker, 1870b: 2304. Sphingonolus coerulans (Linnaeus, 1767) – Finot 1895: 469 (misidentification rectified by Chopard 1943: 318). — Vosseler 1902a: 372 (misidentification rectified by Uvarov 1923b: 67). Sphingonotus rubescens – Kirby 1910: 274. — Chopard 1943: 318 – Tlili et al. 2019a: 391. Sphingonotus rubescens rubescens – Mistshenko 1936: 168. Sphingonotus (Sphingonotus) rubescens rubescens – Shishodia et al. 2010: 101. TYPE SPECIMENS. — Egypt • ♂; type lost (Johnston 1956); Sinai • ♀; holotype; Sinai; NHM. DISTRIBUTION. — This species is widely distributed from Central Asia to North and Sub-Saharan Africa (Mistshenko 1936). DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Tozeur, Gouifla (Tlili et al. 2019a). MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Tunisia • 1 ♂; Gafsa, Jebel Ben Younes; 01.IV.2017; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4709 • 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4710 • 1 ♂; same data; 26.IV.2019; MNHN-EO-CAELIF 7075 • 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7076 • 1 ♂; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7077 • 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7078 • 1 ♂; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7079 • 1 ♀; Gafsa, El Guetar; 30.IV.2017; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7080 • 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7081 • 1♀; Tozeur, Degache; 29.IV.2016; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4700 • 1 ♀; Kasserine, Sbeitla; 25.VII.2017; M. Mahfoudhi; INAT. NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Kasserine, Sbeitla; Gafsa, Jebel Ben Younes, El Guetar; Tozeur, Degache. HABITAT. — Desert or semi-desert region (Usmani 2008); base of mountain (H. Tlili, pers. obs.). DNA SEQUENCES. — We generated new sequences for two markers: COI (653 bp) and ND2 (449 bp) (Table 4)., Published as part of 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, pp. 607-738 in Zoosystema 42 (31) on page 703, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a31, http://zenodo.org/record/4382361, {"references":["WALKER F. 1870 a. - Catalogue of the specimens of Dermaptera Saltatoria in the collection of the British Museum. Part IV, p. 605 - 809. https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 8218871","WALKER F. 1870 b. - List of Dermaptera discovered by J. K. Lord. Esg., in Egypt and the adjoining countries; with descriptions of new species. Zoologist 2 (5): 2296 - 2303.","LINNAEUS C. 1767. - Systema Naturae, per Regna tria Naturae, secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. (12 th ed), Holmiae, Stockholm, (Laurentius Salvius) 1 (2): 533 - 1327.","FINOT A. 1895. - Faune de l'Algerie et de la Tunisie. Insectes Orthopteres. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France 64: 57 - 120, 401 - 552, 655 - 676.","CHOPARD L. 1943. - Faune de l'Empire francais: I OrthopteroIdes de l'Afrique du Nord. Librairie Larose, Paris, 450 p.","VOSSELER J. 1902 a. - Beitrage zur Faunistik und Biologie der Orthopteren Algeriens und Tunesiens. Zoologische Jahrbucher. Abteilung fur Systematik, Geographie Und Biologie Der Tiere 16: 337 - 404.","UVAROV B. P. 1923 b. - Records and descriptions of Orthoptera from North-West Africa. Novitates zoologicae 30: 59 - 78. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 28982","KIRBY W. F. 1910. - A Synonymic Catalogue of the Orthoptera. Vol. 3., Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 674 p.","TLILI H., ABDELLAOUI K., BEN CHOUIKHA M., MHAFDHI M., JEM- MAZI A., AMMAR M., & DESUTTER- GRANDCOLAS L. 2019 a. - First record of Dericorys albidula Serville, 1838 (Orthoptera: Dericorythidae) inTunisia and Libya. Zootaxa 4551 (3): 385 - 393. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4551.3.7","MISTSHENKO L. 1936. - Revision of Paleartic species of the genus Sphingonotus Fieber (Orth. Acrid.). Eos. Madrid 12: 65 - 282.","SHISHODIA M. S., CHANDRA K. & GUPTA S. K. 2010. - An annotated checklist of Orthoptera (Insecta) from India. Zoological Survey of India, Miscellaneous Publication, Occasional Paper 314: 1 - 366.","JOHNSTON H. B. 1956. - Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers. Cambridge University Press, 833 p.","USMANI M. K. 2008. - Studies on Acridoidea (Orthoptera) with some new records from Fezzan, Libya. Zootaxa 1946: 1 - 41. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 1946.1.1"]}

Tmethis cisti (Fabricius, 1787) (Fig. 72) Gryllus cisti Fabricius, 1787: 237. Eremobia cisti ��� Serville 1838: 707. ��� Vosseler 1902a: 384. Eremobius clavelii Lucas, 1851: 364. Tmethis cisti ��� Fieber 1854: 201. ��� Uvarov 1943: 63. ��� Massa 1994: 3; 2013: 437. ��� Massa & Rizzo 1998: 279. Tmethis pulchripennis algerica Saussure, 1888: 130. Eremobia clavelii var. tunensis Saussure, 1888: 131. ��� Krauss 1892a: 148. Eremobia clavelii var. gracilis Saussure, 1888: 131. ��� Krauss 1892a: 148. Eremobia claveli var. laeviuscula Krauss, 1892a: 149. Eremobia claveli var. mozabitica Krauss, 1902: 244. Tmethis cisti barcaeus Salfi, 1926: 86. Tmethis cisti cisti ��� Salfi 1930: 402. TYPE SPECIMEN. ��� Tunisia ��� unspecified; unknown repository. DISTRIBUTION. ��� Algeria (Zergoun et al. 2018); Libya (Massa 1998); Iraq (Uvarov 1938). DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. ��� Tamerza (Massa & Rizzo 1998); Gabes (Krauss 1892a; Vosseler 1902a; Massa 1994, 2013); Gafsa (Uvarov 1943; Massa 1994, 2013); Kerkennah Island, Djerba (Massa 1994); Shkira, North Gabes, South Gabes, Mareth, Sidi Mansour, Ben Gerdane (Massa 2013). MATERIAL EXAMINED. ��� Tunisia ��� 1 ♂; Gafsa, Sened; 03.IV.2017; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4725 ��� 1♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4726 ��� 1 ♀; same data; INAT. NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. ��� Gafsa, Sened. HABITAT. ��� Desert environments (Innes 1929). DNA SEQUENCES. ��� We generated a new sequence for the mitochondrial marker COI (622 bp) (Table 4)., Published as part of 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, pp. 607-738 in Zoosystema 42 (31) on page 708, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a31, http://zenodo.org/record/4382361, {"references":["FABRICIUS J. C. 1787. - Mantissa Insectorum sistens eorum species nuper detectas. I. Hafniae, 348 p. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 36471","SERVILLE J. G. AUDINET 1838 [1839]. - Histoire naturelle des insectes. Orthopteres. Libraire Encyclopedique de Roret, Paris, 776 p.","VOSSELER J. 1902 a. - Beitrage zur Faunistik und Biologie der Orthopteren Algeriens und Tunesiens. Zoologische Jahrbucher. Abteilung fur Systematik, Geographie Und Biologie Der Tiere 16: 337 - 404.","LUCAS P. H. 1851. - Quelques remarques geographiques sur les Acridides qui habitent les possessions francaises du Nord de l'Afrique et description de deux especes nouvelles. Annales de la Societe entomologique de France 9 (2): 349 - 383.","FIEBER F. X. 1854. - Erganzungsblatter zur Synopse der europaischen Orthopteren. Lotos 4: 196 - 202.","UVAROV B. P. 1943. - The tribe Trinchini of the subfamily Pamphaginae, and the interrelations of the acrid subfamilies (Orthoptera). The Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 93 (1): 1 - 72.","MASSA B. 1994. - Note corologiche e biologiche su alcuni ortotteri mediterranei. Bollettino della Societa entomologica italiana Genova 126 (1): 3 - 8.","MASSA B. 2013. - Pamphagidae (Orthoptera: Caelifera) of North Africa: key to genera and the annotated check-list of species. Zootaxa 3700 (3): 435 - 475. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3700.3.7","MASSA B. & RIZZO M. C. 1998. - Orthoptera raccolti in Tunisia nel XIX secolo e conservati nel museo civico di storia naturale \" G. Doria \" di Genova. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale X. I.: 273 - 292.","SAUSSURE H. DE 1888. - Additamenta ad prodrorum Oedipodiorum. Memoires de la Societe de physique et d'histoire naturelle de Geneve 30 (1): 1 - 182.","KRAUSS H. A. 1892 a. - Dermapteren und Orthopteren aus Tunis. Gesammelt von Dr. A. Konig. Wiener Entomologische Zeitung 11 (5): 143 - 150.","KRAUSS H. A. 1902. - Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Orthopteren- Fauna der Sahara. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Koniglichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 52: 230 - 254. https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 13332775","SALFI M. 1926. - Contribuzioni alla conosoenza degli Ortotteri libici. Archivio Zoologico Italiano 11: 65 - 104.","SALFI M. 1930. - I caratteri dell'ortotterofauna cirenaica. Archivio Zoologico Italiano 14: 397 - 410.","ZERGOUN Y., GUEZOUL O., SEKOUR M., BOURAS N. & HOLTZ M. D. 2018. - Effects of Temperatures and Rainfall Variability on the Abundance and Diversity of Caelifera (Insecta, Orthoptera) in Three Natural Environments in the Mzab Valley, Septentrional Sahara (Algeria). Tunisian Journal of Plant Protection 13 (2): 217 - 228.","MASSA B. 1998. - Attuali conoscenze sugli Ortotteri della Libia (Insecta Orthoptera). Il Naturalista Siciliano 22: 235 - 320.","UVAROV B. P. 1938. - Orthoptera from Iraq and Iran. zoological series of Field Museum of Natural History 20 (33): 439 - 451. https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 2746582","INNES W. B. 1929. - Revision des Orthopteres de l'Egypte. Deuxieme Partie: Acridiens. Memoires de la Societe Royale Entomologique de l'Egypte 3 (2): 1 - 176."]}

Schistocerca gregaria gregaria (Forskål, 1775) (Fig. 12) Gryllus gregarius Forskål, 1775: 81. Acridium peregrina Olivier, 1804: 388. Acridium (Schistocerca) peregrinum – Stål, 1873: 65. Schistocerca peregrina – Brunner 1882: 215. — Bonnet & Finot 1885: 231 – Finot 1895: 538. Schistocerca gregaria – Krauss 1907: 12. — Ammar et al. 2009: 147. Schistocerca gregaria gregaria – Franekel 1929: 657. TYPE SPECIMEN. — Egypt • unspecified; type lost (Cigliano et al. 2020); Cairo; unknown repository. DISTRIBUTION. — Widely distributed in the Old World, and expands its range during periods of invasion (Lecoq 2004). DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Tozeur (Bonnet & Finot 1885; Finot 1895); Tataouine, Douiret (Ammar et al. 2009). MATERIAL EXAMINED.— Tunisia • 1 ♂; Tozeur, Degache; 29.XI.2016; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4663 • 1♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4664 • 1 ♂, 2♀; same data; INAT • 1 ♀; Gafsa, Sened; 30.XI.2016; H. Tlili; INAT. NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Gafsa, Sened; Tozeur, Degache; Kebili, Essagui. HABITAT. — Deserts of North and West Africa (Cisse et al. 2013)., Published as part of 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, pp. 607-738 in Zoosystema 42 (31) on page 617, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a31, http://zenodo.org/record/4382361, {"references":["FORSKAL P. 1775. - Descriptiones animalium, avium, amphibiorum, piscium, insectorum, vermium, quae in itinere orientali observavit Petrus Forskal, p. 81 - 82. https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 2087946","OLIVIER G. A. 1804. - Voyage dans l'empire Ottoman, l'Egypte et la Perse, fait par ordre du Gouvernement pendant les six premieres annees de la Republique. Agasse, Paris, 4388 p.","STAL C. 1873. - Recensio orthopterorum. Revue critique des Orthopteres decrits par Linne, De Geer et Thunberg. Norstedt and Soner, Stockholm, part 1, 154 p.","BRUNNER VON WATTENWYL C. 1882. - Prodromus der europaischen Orthopteren. 466 p.","BONNET E. & FINOT A. 1885. - Les Orthopteres de la regence de Tunis. Revue des sciences naturelles, 3 eme serie 4: 193 - 232, 333 - 365.","FINOT A. 1895. - Faune de l'Algerie et de la Tunisie. Insectes Orthopteres. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France 64: 57 - 120, 401 - 552, 655 - 676.","KRAUSS H. A. 1907. - Orthopteren aus Sudarabien und von der Insel Sokotra. Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie derWissenschaften. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse 71 (2): 1 - 30 [published as reprint in 1907, re-published in journal in 1931].","AMMAR M., BEN HAMOUDA A., KALLEL S., MOUMENE K. & BEN HAMOUDA M. H. 2009. - Phase characteristics of the desert locust Schistocerca gregaria swarming populations during the 2004 outbreak in Tunisia and that of 2005 in Algeria. Tunisian Journal of Plant Protection 4: 145 - 156.","FRAENKEL G. 1929. - Untersuchungen uber Lebensgewohnheiten, Sinnesphysiologie und Sozialpsychologie der wandernden Larven der afrikanischen Wanderheuschrecke Schistocerca gregaria (Forsk.). Biologisches Zentralblatt 49 (11): 657 - 680.","CIGLIANO M. M., BRAUN H., EADES D. C. & OTTE D. 2020. - Orthoptera Species File. Version 5.0 / 5.0. Available from: http: // Orthoptera. SpeciesFile. org (accessed 29 November 2020).","LECOQ M. 2004. - Vers une solution durable au probleme du criquet pelerin? Science et changements planetaires / Secheresse 15 (3): 217 - 224.","CISSE S., GHAOUT S., MAZIH A., BABAH EBBE M. A. O., BENAHI A. S. & PIOU C. 2013. - Effect of vegetation on density thresholds of adult desert locust gregarization from survey data in Mauritania. Entomologia Experimentalis et applicata 149 (2): 159 - 165. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / eea. 12121"]}

Helioscirtus gracilis Vosseler, 1902 * (Fig. 35) Helioscirtus gracilis Vosseler, 1902a: 368. — Chopard 1943: 322. Vosseleria gracilis – Uvarov 1923d: 30. TYPE SPECIMEN. — Tunisia • ♀; holotype; Gafsa; SMNS. DISTRIBUTION. — Tunisia (Vosseler 1902a). DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Gafsa (Vosseler 1902a); Nefzaoua (Chopard 1943). MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Tunisia • 1 ♂; Kebili, Nefzaoua; IV.1884; E. Bonnet; MNHN-EO-CAELIF481. NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — None. HABITAT. — Unknown. REMARKS. — This species has never been recorded since Vosseler (1902a); based on known localities to date, seems endemic to Tunisia., Published as part of 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, pp. 607-738 in Zoosystema 42 (31) on page 623, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a31, http://zenodo.org/record/4382361, {"references":["VOSSELER J. 1902 a. - Beitrage zur Faunistik und Biologie der Orthopteren Algeriens und Tunesiens. Zoologische Jahrbucher. Abteilung fur Systematik, Geographie Und Biologie Der Tiere 16: 337 - 404.","CHOPARD L. 1943. - Faune de l'Empire francais: I OrthopteroIdes de l'Afrique du Nord. Librairie Larose, Paris, 450 p.","UVAROV B. P. 1923 d. - Uber die Acrididen-Gattungen Helioscirtus Sauss. und Vosseleria, g. n., nebst Beschreibung zweier neuen Vosseleria - Arten von Somali. Konowia, Zeitschrift fur Systematische Insektenkunde 2: 29 - 32."]}

Pyrgomorpha conica (Olivier, 1791) (Fig. 75) Acridium conicum Olivier, 1791: 230. Truxalis grylloides Latreille, 1804: 148. Pyrgomorpha grylloides – Fieber 1853: 97. — Bonnet & Finot 1885: 222. — Finot 1895: 490. — Vosseler 1902b: 7. Pyrgomorpha cognata – Vosseler 1902a: 387 (misidentification rectified by Uvarov 1923b: 74). Pyrgomorpha conica – Bolívar 1904: 452. — Chopard 1943: 338. — Massa & Rizzo 1998: 279. TYPE SPECIMEN. — France • ♀; neotype (Mc Kevan 1971); South France; MNHN. DISTRIBUTION. — Very common around the Mediterranean Sea, in West Africa and the Middle East extending up to India (Willemse et al. 2018). DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Recorded from the north to the south of the country (Bonnet & Finot 1885; Finot 1895); Tamerza (Massa & Rizzo 1998: 279); Sfax, Graiba, Gabes (Vosseler 1902a). MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Tunisia • 1♂; Gafsa, Moulares, Chanoufia; 27.IV.2016; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4729 • 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4730 • 1 ♂, 1 ♀; same data; INAT • 1 ♂; Gafsa, Douwara; 20.VII.2016; H. Tlili; INAT • 1♀; Sidi Bouzid, Meknassi; 1929; C. Dumont; MNHN-EO-CAELIF950 • 1 ♂; Gafsa, Amra; 26.IV.2019; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7057 • 1♂; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7058 • 1 ♂; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7059 • 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7060 • 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7061 • 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF 7062 • 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7063 • 1♀; Kebili, Essagui; 25.IV.2017; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7064 • 1 ♂, 4 ♀; Gafsa, Metkides; 01.VI.2016; H. Tlili; INAT • 1 ♀; Gafsa, Sened; 01.VI.2016; H. Tlili; INAT. France • 1 ♀; neotype; Cannes; 15.IV.1878; A. Finot; MNHN-EO-CAELIF 970. NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Gafsa, Metkides, Gafsa, Sened, Gafsa, Moulares, Gafsa, Douwara; Tozeur, Souani Ali. HABITAT. — Dry habitats (Usmani 2008). DNA SEQUENCES. — We generated a new sequence for the mitochondrial marker COI (663 bp) (Table 4)., Published as part of 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, pp. 607-738 in Zoosystema 42 (31) on page 709, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a31, http://zenodo.org/record/4382361, {"references":["OLIVIER G. A. 1791. - Orthoptera, in OLIVIER G. A. (ed.), Encyclopedie Methodique, Histoire Naturelle, Insects. Agasse, Paris 6: 204 - 236 p. https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 7604791","LATREILLE P. A. 1804. - Histoire naturelle generale et particuliere des crustaces et des insectes. Tome XII. F. Dufart, Paris, 424 p. https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 24882545","FIEBER F. X. 1853. - Synopsis der europaischen Orthopteren mit besonderer Rucksicht der Bohmischen Arten. Lotos 3: 90 - 104, 115 - 131.","BONNET E. & FINOT A. 1885. - Les Orthopteres de la regence de Tunis. Revue des sciences naturelles, 3 eme serie 4: 193 - 232, 333 - 365.","FINOT A. 1895. - Faune de l'Algerie et de la Tunisie. Insectes Orthopteres. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France 64: 57 - 120, 401 - 552, 655 - 676.","VOSSELER J. 1902 b. - Beitrage zur Faunistik und Biologie der Orthopteren Algeriens und Tunesiens, II. Theil. Zoologische Jahrbucher. Abteilung fur Systematik, Geographie Und Biologie Der Tiere 17: 1 - 99.","VOSSELER J. 1902 a. - Beitrage zur Faunistik und Biologie der Orthopteren Algeriens und Tunesiens. Zoologische Jahrbucher. Abteilung fur Systematik, Geographie Und Biologie Der Tiere 16: 337 - 404.","UVAROV B. P. 1923 b. - Records and descriptions of Orthoptera from North-West Africa. Novitates zoologicae 30: 59 - 78. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 28982","BOLIVAR I. 1904. - Notas sobre los pirgomorfidos (Pyrgomorphidae). VI. Poecilocerinae. VII. Pyrgomorphinae. Boletin de la Real Sociedad Espanola de Historia Natural 4: 432 - 459.","CHOPARD L. 1943. - Faune de l'Empire francais: I OrthopteroIdes de l'Afrique du Nord. Librairie Larose, Paris, 450 p.","MASSA B. & RIZZO M. C. 1998. - Orthoptera raccolti in Tunisia nel XIX secolo e conservati nel museo civico di storia naturale \" G. Doria \" di Genova. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale X. I.: 273 - 292.","WILLEMSE L. P. M., KLEUKERS R. M. J. C. & ODE B. 2018. - The grasshoppers of Greece. EIS Kenniscentrum Insecten en andere ongewervelden. 440 p.","USMANI M. K. 2008. - Studies on Acridoidea (Orthoptera) with some new records from Fezzan, Libya. Zootaxa 1946: 1 - 41. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 1946.1.1"]}

Sphingonotus (Neosphingonotus) tricinctus (Walker, 1870) (Fig. 49) Oedipoda tricincta Walker, 1870b: 2300. Oedipoda balteata – Walker 1870a: 736 (misidentification rectified by Johnston 1956: 486). Sphingonotus balteatus – Finot 1895: 475 (misidentification rectified by Chopard 1943: 316). — Vosseler 1902a: 377 (misidentification rectified by Uvarov 1924: 24). Sphingonotus tricinctus – Kirby 1910: 272. — Uvarov 1924.: 24. — Chopard 1943: 316. Sphingonotus (Neosphingonotus) tricinctus – Benediktov 2009: 29. TYPE SPECIMENS. — Egypt • ♂, ♀; types lost (Johnston 1956); Sinaï; unknown repository. DISTRIBUTION. — Morocco (Maurel 2008); Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt (Chopard 1943). DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Djerba (Finot 1895); Gabes, Gafsa (Vosseler 1902a). MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Tunisia • 1 ♂; Gafsa, Sened; 17.VII.2017; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4703 • 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF 4704 • 4 ♀; same data; INAT • 1 ♀; Gafsa, Douwara; 20.VII.2016; H. Tlili; INAT. NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Gafsa, Sened; Gafsa, Douwara. HABITAT. — Sub desertic areas (H. Tlili, pers. obs.). DNA SEQUENCES. — We generated new sequences for two markers: COI (654 bp) and ND2 (444 bp) (Table 4)., Published as part of 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, pp. 607-738 in Zoosystema 42 (31) on page 702, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a31, http://zenodo.org/record/4382361, {"references":["WALKER F. 1870 a. - Catalogue of the specimens of Dermaptera Saltatoria in the collection of the British Museum. Part IV, p. 605 - 809. https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 8218871","WALKER F. 1870 b. - List of Dermaptera discovered by J. K. Lord. Esg., in Egypt and the adjoining countries; with descriptions of new species. Zoologist 2 (5): 2296 - 2303.","JOHNSTON H. B. 1956. - Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers. Cambridge University Press, 833 p.","FINOT A. 1895. - Faune de l'Algerie et de la Tunisie. Insectes Orthopteres. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France 64: 57 - 120, 401 - 552, 655 - 676.","CHOPARD L. 1943. - Faune de l'Empire francais: I OrthopteroIdes de l'Afrique du Nord. Librairie Larose, Paris, 450 p.","VOSSELER J. 1902 a. - Beitrage zur Faunistik und Biologie der Orthopteren Algeriens und Tunesiens. Zoologische Jahrbucher. Abteilung fur Systematik, Geographie Und Biologie Der Tiere 16: 337 - 404.","UVAROV B. P. 1924. - Some new and interesting Orthoptera in the collection of the Ministry of Agriculture. Bulletin - Ministry of Agriculture, Technical and Scientific Service 41: 1 - 41.","KIRBY W. F. 1910. - A Synonymic Catalogue of the Orthoptera. Vol. 3., Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 674 p.","BENEDIKTOV A. A. 2009. - To the taxonomy and bioacoustics of grasshoppers of the genus Sphingonotus Fieber, 1852 (Orthoptera, Acrididae, Oedipodinae). Trudy Russkago Entomologicheskago Obshchestva [= Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae] 80 (1): 21 - 33.","MAUREL H. 2008. - Premiers inventaires des Orthopteres de la \" collection systematique \" du laboratoire de zoologie de l'Institut National Agronomique d'El-Harrach (Algerie) (Ensifera, Caelifera). Materiaux orthopteriques et entomocenotiques 13: 33 - 42."]}

Calliptamus wattenwylianus (Pantel, 1896) (Fig. 9) Caloptenus italicus var. wattenwyliana Pantel, 1896: 70. Calliptamus italicus var. wattenwylianus – Jacobson & Bianchi 1902: 317. Calliptamus wattenwylianus – Werner 1932: 173. — Massa & Rizzo 1998: 284. Calliptamus wattenwylianus wattenwylianus – Baroni et al. 2018: 6. TYPE SPECIMENS. — Spain • ♂, ♀; lectotype, paralectotype (Defaut 2012); Sitio; MNHN. DISTRIBUTION. — Only present along the Mediterranean Coast from North Africa (Jago 1963), France (Chopard 1951), Spain (Heller et al. 1998), Italy (Baroni et al. 2018). DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Tamerza (Massa & Rizzo 1998). MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Tunisia • 1 ♂; Kasserine, Laayoune; 5.VIII.2016; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4660 • 1 ♂; Gafsa, Sened; 17.VII.2016; H.Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7029. NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Kasserine, Laayoune; Gafsa, Sened. HABITAT. — Calliptamus wattenwylianus almost always coexists in the same habitat with Calliptamus barbarus barbarus (H. Tlili, pers. obs). DNA SEQUENCES. — We generated a new sequence for the mitochondrial marker COI (675 bp) (Table 4)., Published as part of 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, pp. 607-738 in Zoosystema 42 (31) on pages 616-617, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a31, http://zenodo.org/record/4382361, {"references":["PANTEL P. J. 1896. - Notes Orthopterologiques 5. Les Orthopteres du \" Sitio \" dans la Sierra de Cuenca. Anales de la Sociedad Espanola de Historia Natural 25: 59 - 118.","JACOBSON G. G. R. & BIANCHI V. L. 1902. - Orthoptera and Pseudoneoptera of the Russian Empire. Izdanie A. F. Devriena, St. Petersburg, 952 p.","WERNER F. 1932. - Ergebnisse einer zoologischen Forschungsreise nach Marokko. Unternommen 1930 mit Unterstutzung der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien von Franz Werner und Richard Ebner. IV. Orthoptera. Succeeded by: Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse (1) 141: 111 - 174.","MASSA B. & RIZZO M. C. 1998. - Orthoptera raccolti in Tunisia nel XIX secolo e conservati nel museo civico di storia naturale \" G. Doria \" di Genova. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale X. I.: 273 - 292.","BARONI D., BONIFACINO M. & VALFIORITO R. 2018. - Euchorthippus elegantulus Zeuner, 1940 e Calliptamus wattenwylianus Pantel, 1896 al limite nord-orientale d'areale: due specie nuove per l'Italia (Insecta, Orthoptera, Acrididae). Doriana 9 (406): 1 - 9.","DEFAUT B. 2012. - Biometrie des types des caeliferes de France (Orthoptera). 1. Definition des parametres mesures. 2. Mensurations chez les Tridactylidae, Tetrigidae, Pyrgomorphidae, Pamphagidae et Acrididae Calliptaminae. Materiaux orthopteriques et entomocenotiques 17: 21 - 56.","JAGO N. D. 1963. - A revision of the genus Calliptamus Serville (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Bulletin of the British Museum 13 (9): 289 - 322.","CHOPARD L. 1951. - Faune de France. 56 OrthopteroIdes. Paul Lechevalier, Paris, 359 p.","HELLER K. G., KORSUNOVSKAYA O., RAGGE D. R., VEDENINA V., WILLEMSE F., ZHANTIEV R. D. & FRANTSEVICH L. 1998. - Check-list of European Orthoptera. Articulata 7: 1 - 61."]}

Sphingonotus (Parasphingonotus) radioserratus Johnsen, 1985 * (Fig. 50) Sphingonotus radioserratus Johnsen, 1985: 149. Sphingonotus (Parasphingonotus) radioserratus – Husemann et al. 2011: 55. TYPE SPECIMEN. — Tunisia • ♂; holotype; Gafsa; MZLU. DISTRIBUTION. — Morocco, Tunisia (Husemann et al. 2011); Algeria (Moussi et al. 2018). DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Gafsa (Johnsen 1985; Husemann et al. 2011). MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Morocco • 1 ♂; Errachidia; 20.V.2008; M. Husemann; NHMUK 013806118 • 1 ♀; same data; NHMUK 013806119. NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — None. HABITAT. — That species lives in open areas of oases and abandoned fields (M. Husemann, pers. comm. 2019). REMARKS. — The last report of this species in Southern Tunisia dates from 1931 (Johnsen 1985)., Published as part of 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, pp. 607-738 in Zoosystema 42 (31) on pages 702-703, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a31, http://zenodo.org/record/4382361, {"references":["JOHNSEN P. 1985. - Contributions to the knowledge of the genera Sphingonotus, Pseudosphingonotus and Wernerella in Africa, with description of four new species (Acridoidea: Oedipodinae). Natura Jutlandica 21 (10): 149 - 168.","HUSEMANN M., RAY J. & HOCHKIRCH A. 2011. - A revision of the subgenus Parasphingonotus Benediktov & Husemann, 2009 (Orthoptera: Oedipodinae: Sphingonotini). Zootaxa 2916: 51 - 61. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 2916.1.4","MOUSSI A., DEY L. S., PETIT D., ABBA A., KLESSER R. & HUSEMANN M. 2018. - First genetic data for band-winged grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Oedipodinae) of the Biskra region of Algeria with new records for the country. African zoology 53 (1): 31 - 40. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 15627020.2018.1463172"]}

Aiolopus strepens strepens (Latreille, 1804) (Fig. 33) Acrydium strepens Latreille, 1804: 154. Acridium vittatum Brullé, 1840: 78. — Finot 1895: 422. Aiolopus strepens – Fieber 1853: 100. — Chopard 1943: 287. Epacromia strepens – Bolívar 1876: 348. — Bonnet & Finot 1885: 214. — Finot 1895: 422. — Vosseler 1902a: 354. Aiolopus strepens strepens – Massa et al. 2012: 445. TYPE SPECIMEN. — France • ♂; neotype (Hollis 1968); Dordogne; NHM. DISTRIBUTION. — The distribution of this species is covers southern Europe, North Africa, and western Asia (Willemse et al. 2018). DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Gabes (Bonnet & Finot 1885; Finot 1895); Bou Hedma Mountain (Chopard 1943). MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Tunisia • 1 ♂; Gafsa, El Guetar; 30.IV.2017; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4681 • 1 ♀; Tozeur, Souani Ali; 31.III.2016; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4680 • 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7440. Algeria • 1 ♀; around Algiers; 1898; J. Kunckel; MNHN-EO-CAELIF9110. NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Tozeur, Souani Ali; Gafsa, Douwara. HABITAT. — Slightly-wet places, grassland, oases (Chopard 1943)., Published as part of 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, pp. 607-738 in Zoosystema 42 (31) on page 623, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a31, http://zenodo.org/record/4382361, {"references":["LATREILLE P. A. 1804. - Histoire naturelle generale et particuliere des crustaces et des insectes. Tome XII. F. Dufart, Paris, 424 p. https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 24882545","FINOT A. 1895. - Faune de l'Algerie et de la Tunisie. Insectes Orthopteres. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France 64: 57 - 120, 401 - 552, 655 - 676.","FIEBER F. X. 1853. - Synopsis der europaischen Orthopteren mit besonderer Rucksicht der Bohmischen Arten. Lotos 3: 90 - 104, 115 - 131.","CHOPARD L. 1943. - Faune de l'Empire francais: I OrthopteroIdes de l'Afrique du Nord. Librairie Larose, Paris, 450 p.","BOLIVAR I. 1876. - Sinopsis de los Ortopteros de Espana y Portugal. Anales de la Sociedad Espanola de Historia Natural 5: 259 - 372","BONNET E. & FINOT A. 1885. - Les Orthopteres de la regence de Tunis. Revue des sciences naturelles, 3 eme serie 4: 193 - 232, 333 - 365.","VOSSELER J. 1902 a. - Beitrage zur Faunistik und Biologie der Orthopteren Algeriens und Tunesiens. Zoologische Jahrbucher. Abteilung fur Systematik, Geographie Und Biologie Der Tiere 16: 337 - 404.","MASSA B., FONTANA P., BUZZETTI F. M., KLEUKERS R. M. J. C. & ODE B. 2012. - Orthoptera. Fauna d'Italia. Vol. 48. Calderini, Bologna, 563 p.","HOLLIS D. 1968. - A revision of the genus Aiolopus Fieber (Orthoptera: Acridoidea). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 22 (7): 307 - 355.","WILLEMSE L. P. M., KLEUKERS R. M. J. C. & ODE B. 2018. - The grasshoppers of Greece. EIS Kenniscentrum Insecten en andere ongewervelden. 440 p."]}

Oedipoda miniata mauritanica Lucas, 1849 (Fig. 44) Oedipoda miniata – Chopard 1943: 300 (misidentification). — Massa & Rizzo 1998: 286 (misidentification). Oedipoda gratiosa – Bonnet & Finot 1885: 216 (misidentification). — Finot 1895: 442 (misidentification). — Vosseler 1902a: 357 (misidentification). Oedipoda mauritanica Lucas, 1849a: 32. Oedipoda miniata mauritanica – Lepiney & Mimeur 1932: 14. Oedipoda miniata mauretanica – Johnston 1956: 520 (misspelling). TYPE SPECIMEN. — Algeria • ♀; holotype; Oran; MNHN. DISTRIBUTION. — North Africa, Sardinia, Sicily, and Balearic Islands (Fontana et al. 2019). DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Djerba (Bonnet & Finot 1885); Sfax, Gabes (Vosseler 1902a). MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Algeria • 1 ♀; holotype; Oran; MNHN-EO-CAELIF416. Tunisia • 1 ♂; Kasserine, Laayoune; 5.VIII.2016; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF 4693 • 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4694 • 4 ♀; same data; INAT. NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Kasserine, Laayoune, Gafsa, Sened. HABITAT. — Subdesert areas (Usmani 2008). DNA SEQUENCES. — We generated a new sequence for the mitochondrial marker COI (655 bp) (Table 4)., Published as part of 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, pp. 607-738 in Zoosystema 42 (31) on pages 625-626, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a31, http://zenodo.org/record/4382361, {"references":["LUCAS P. H. 1849 a. - Exploration Scientifique de l'Algerie: Histoire Naturelle des Animaux Articules. Les Orthopteres 3: 1 - 39.","CHOPARD L. 1943. - Faune de l'Empire francais: I OrthopteroIdes de l'Afrique du Nord. Librairie Larose, Paris, 450 p.","MASSA B. & RIZZO M. C. 1998. - Orthoptera raccolti in Tunisia nel XIX secolo e conservati nel museo civico di storia naturale \" G. Doria \" di Genova. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale X. I.: 273 - 292.","BONNET E. & FINOT A. 1885. - Les Orthopteres de la regence de Tunis. Revue des sciences naturelles, 3 eme serie 4: 193 - 232, 333 - 365.","FINOT A. 1895. - Faune de l'Algerie et de la Tunisie. Insectes Orthopteres. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France 64: 57 - 120, 401 - 552, 655 - 676.","VOSSELER J. 1902 a. - Beitrage zur Faunistik und Biologie der Orthopteren Algeriens und Tunesiens. Zoologische Jahrbucher. Abteilung fur Systematik, Geographie Und Biologie Der Tiere 16: 337 - 404.","LEPINEY J. & MIMEUR J. M. 1932. - Notes d'entomologie agricole et forestiere du Maroc. Memoires de la Societe des sciences naturelles du Maroc, 31, 196 p.","JOHNSTON H. B. 1956. - Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers. Cambridge University Press, 833 p.","FONTANA P., BUZZETTI F. & MASSA B. 2019. - A new rare species of Oedipoda Latreille, 1829 (Orthoptera: Acrididae) from South Italy. Zootaxa 4614 (1): 50 - 60. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4614.1.2","USMANI M. K. 2008. - Studies on Acridoidea (Orthoptera) with some new records from Fezzan, Libya. Zootaxa 1946: 1 - 41. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 1946.1.1"]}

Sphodromerus decoloratus Finot, 1894 ** (Fig. 10) Sphodromerus decoloratus Finot, 1894: xiii. TYPE SPECIMENS. — Algeria • ♂, ♀; syntypes; Biskra; MNHN. DISTRIBUTION. — Algeria (Chopard 1943). DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — None. MATERIAL EXAMINED.— Algeria • 1♀; holotype; Biskra; W. Brunner MNHN-EO-CAELIF74 • 1 ♂; same data; M. Noualhier; MNHN-EO-CAELIF 75. Tunisia • 1 ♀; Gabes; MNHN-EO-CAELIF76 • 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF1904. NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — None. HABITAT. — Steppe environment (Chopard 1938) REMARKS. — The specimens deposited in the MNHN were identified by Marius Descamps in 1965, but this data was not published; Sphodromerus decoloratus is thus reported here for the first time from Southern Tunisia (Gabes province)., Published as part of 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, pp. 607-738 in Zoosystema 42 (31) on page 617, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a31, http://zenodo.org/record/4382361, {"references":["FINOT A. 1894. - Descriptions abregees de quatre especes nouvelles d'Orthopteres habitant l'Algerie. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France, Bulletin entomologique 63: XII-XIV. https: // gallica. bnf. fr / ark: / 12148 / bpt 6 k 6336863 w","CHOPARD L. 1943. - Faune de l'Empire francais: I OrthopteroIdes de l'Afrique du Nord. Librairie Larose, Paris, 450 p.","CHOPARD L. 1938. - Les Orthopteres desertiques de l'Afrique du Nord. Memoires de la societe de biogeographie 6: 219 - 230."]}

Tropidopola cylindrica cylindrica (Marschall, 1836) * Gryllus cylindricus Marschall, 1836: 210. Opsomala sicula Serville, 1838: 594. Tropidopola fasciculata Charpentier, 1841. — Stål 1873: 86. Opsomala cylindrica – Fieber 1853: 98. Opomala cylindrica – Fischer 1853: 306. — Bonnet & Finot 1885: 333. Tropidopola cylindrica – Bolívar 1876: 304. — Chopard 1943: 394. Tropidopola obtusa algeriana Uvarov, 1922: 366. Tropidopola cylindrica cylindrica – Uvarov 1926a: 163. TYPE SPECIMEN. — Italy • ♀; holotype; Sicily; NHM. DISTRIBUTION. — North-West Africa up to Tripolitania and Fezzan (Chopard 1943; Massa 2009); Southeastern Europe (Chopard 1943; Pomares et al. 2005). DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Between Sfax and Gafsa (Bonnet & Finot 1885); Kebili, Fatnassa (Uvarov 1926a); Tozeur (Chopard 1943). MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Tunisia • 1 ♀; Tunis, Menzeh; 04.III.2016; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4714 • 1 ♂; same data; 23.III.2017; Khawla, Boughanmi; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4713. NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — None. HABITAT. — Riparian and humid areas (Pomares et al. 2005)., Published as part of 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, pp. 607-738 in Zoosystema 42 (31) on pages 704-705, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a31, http://zenodo.org/record/4382361, {"references":["MARSCHALL G. A. F. 1836. - Decas Orthopterorum novorum. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 1 (2): 207 - 218.","SERVILLE J. G. AUDINET 1838 [1839]. - Histoire naturelle des insectes. Orthopteres. Libraire Encyclopedique de Roret, Paris, 776 p.","CHARPENTIER T. 1841. - Einige Bemerkungen die Orthopteren betreffend, besonders. In: Bezug auf Burmeister's und Serville's Schriften uber diese Insektenabetheilungun. Germar's Zeitschrift fur Entolomologie, 3, p. 283 - 321.","STAL C. 1873. - Recensio orthopterorum. Revue critique des Orthopteres decrits par Linne, De Geer et Thunberg. Norstedt and Soner, Stockholm, part 1, 154 p.","FIEBER F. X. 1853. - Synopsis der europaischen Orthopteren mit besonderer Rucksicht der Bohmischen Arten. Lotos 3: 90 - 104, 115 - 131.","FISCHER L. H. 1853. - Orthoptera Europaea. Lipsiae [Leipzig], 1 - 454.","BONNET E. & FINOT A. 1885. - Les Orthopteres de la regence de Tunis. Revue des sciences naturelles, 3 eme serie 4: 193 - 232, 333 - 365.","BOLIVAR I. 1876. - Sinopsis de los Ortopteros de Espana y Portugal. Anales de la Sociedad Espanola de Historia Natural 5: 259 - 372","CHOPARD L. 1943. - Faune de l'Empire francais: I OrthopteroIdes de l'Afrique du Nord. Librairie Larose, Paris, 450 p.","UVAROV B. P. 1922. - Records and descriptions of Orthoptera from S. W. Asia. The journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 28: 351 - 370.","UVAROV B. P. 1926 a. - Orthoptera palaearctica critica: II. Genus Tropidopola St. (Acrid.) Eos. Madrid 2: 149 - 177. https: // hdl. handle. net / 10261 / 135530","MASSA B. 2009. - Annotated check-list of Orthoptera of Libya. Journal of Orthoptera Research 18 (1): 75 - 94. https: // doi. org / 10.1665 / 034.018.0109","POMARES D. L., YARZA J. I. & DEL MORAL V. L. 2005. - Tropidopola cylindrica cylindrica (Marschall, 1836). Boletin Sociedad Entomologica Aragonesa 1 (36): 97 - 106."]}

Heteracris harterti (Bolívar, 1913) * (Fig. 21) Thisoicetrus harterti Bolívar, 1913: 614. — Chopard 1943: 410. Thisoicetrus littoralis harterti – Uvarov 1923b: 76. Thisoicetrus littoralis bolívari Uvarov, 1923b: 76. Heteracris harterti – Davey et al. 1959: 102. — Massa 1994: 5. TYPE SPECIMEN. — Algeria • ♀; lectotype (Grunshaw 1991); Biskra; NHM. DISTRIBUTION. — Morocco (Badih & Pascual 1998); Algeria (Zergoun et al. 2019); Tunisia (Chopard 1943); Libya (Usmani 2008); Sub-Saharan Africa (Grunshaw 1991; Mestre & Chiffaud 2006). DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Tozeur (Chopard 1943); Zarzis, Ben Guerdan (Massa 1994). MATERIAL EXAMINED.— Tunisia • 1♀; Tozeur, C. Dumont; MNHN-EO-CAELIF 3738. Chad • 1 ♂; Soro; 2.VI.1935; Mission d’Etudes de la Biologie des Acridiens; MNHN-EO-CAELIF1907. NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — None. HABITAT. — Desert environment (Chopard 1950)., Published as part of 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, pp. 607-738 in Zoosystema 42 (31) on page 619, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a31, http://zenodo.org/record/4382361, {"references":["BOLIVAR I. 1913. - Ernst Hartert's expedition to the Central Western Sahara. XVII. Orthopteres. Novitates Zoologicae 20: 603 - 615.","CHOPARD L. 1943. - Faune de l'Empire francais: I OrthopteroIdes de l'Afrique du Nord. Librairie Larose, Paris, 450 p.","UVAROV B. P. 1923 b. - Records and descriptions of Orthoptera from North-West Africa. Novitates zoologicae 30: 59 - 78. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 28982","DAVEY J. T., DESCAMPS M. & DEMANGE R. 1959. - Notes on the Acrididae of the French Sudan, with special reference to the Central Niger Delta. Bulletin de l'Institut fondamental d'Afrique noire (IFAN). Serie A: Sciences Naturelles, 21 (1 - 2): 60 - 112.","MASSA B. 1994. - Note corologiche e biologiche su alcuni ortotteri mediterranei. Bollettino della Societa entomologica italiana Genova 126 (1): 3 - 8.","GRUNSHAW J. P. 1991. - A revision of the grasshopper genus Heteracris (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Eyprepocnemidinae). Natural Resources Institute Bulletin 38: 1 - 106. http: // gala. gre. ac. uk / id / eprint / 11108","BADIH A. & PASCUAL F. 1998. - Donnees preliminaires sur les Celiferes du nord du Maroc (Orthoptera, Caelifera). Nouvelle Revue d'Entomologie: 131 - 150.","ZERGOUN Y., GUEZOUL O., SEKOUR M., BOURAS N. & HOLTZ M. D. 2019. - Acridid (Orthoptera: Caelifera) diversity in agriculture ecosystems at three locations in the Mzab valley, Septentrional Sahara, Algeria. Journal of Insect Biodiversity 9 (1): 18 - 27. https: // doi. org / 10.12976 / jib / 2019.09.1.2","USMANI M. K. 2008. - Studies on Acridoidea (Orthoptera) with some new records from Fezzan, Libya. Zootaxa 1946: 1 - 41. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 1946.1.1","MESTRE J. & CHIFFAUD J. 2006. - Catalogue et atlas des acridiens d'Afrique de l'Ouest, 349 p.","CHOPARD L. 1950. - Contribution a l'etude de l'Air. Orthopteroldes. Memoires de l'Institut Francais d'Afrique Noire 10: 127 - 145."]}

Paracinipe foreli (Pictet & Saussure, 1893: cf OSF) (Fig. 69) Pamphagus foreli Pictet & Saussure, 1893: 294. ��� Krauss 1892a. ��� Finot 1895: 509. ��� Vosseler 1902b: 7. Acinipe foreli ��� Kirby 1910: 350. Paracinipe foreli ��� Descamps & Mounassif 1972: 266. ��� Massa 2013: 447. TYPE SPECIMEN. ��� Tunisia ��� ♂; holotype; Gabes; MHNG. DISTRIBUTION. ��� Tunisia (Massa 2013). DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. ��� Gabes (Pictet & Saussure, 1893 (1891); Krauss 1892a; Massa 2013); Bou Hedma mountain, Bir Arrach, Oued Batcha, Gafsa, Bled Essagui, Maknassy (Finot 1895; Descamps & Mounassif 1972; Massa 2013); Bled Talah, Arad, Bir Dellaja, R���dir Tiniat, B. Sidi Ali Ben Hamid, El Guettar, Skhira, Djerba Island (Massa 1996). MATERIAL EXAMINED. ��� Tunisia ��� 1♂; Kebili, Essagui; 28.III.2017; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4723 ��� 1♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4724 ��� 1♂; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7088 ��� 1 ♂; Gafsa, El Guetar; 30.IV.2017; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7065. NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. ��� Gafsa, El Guetar; Kebili, Essagui. HABITAT. ��� Subdesert environment (H. Tlili, pers. obs). DNA SEQUENCES. ��� We generated a new sequence for the mitochondrial marker COI (673 bp) (Table 4)., Published as part of 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, pp. 607-738 in Zoosystema 42 (31) on page 707, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a31, http://zenodo.org/record/4382361, {"references":["PICTET A. & SAUSSURE H. (1893 [1891]). - De quelques orthopteres nouveaux. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 8: 293 - 318.","KRAUSS H. A. 1892 a. - Dermapteren und Orthopteren aus Tunis. Gesammelt von Dr. A. Konig. Wiener Entomologische Zeitung 11 (5): 143 - 150.","FINOT A. 1895. - Faune de l'Algerie et de la Tunisie. Insectes Orthopteres. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France 64: 57 - 120, 401 - 552, 655 - 676.","VOSSELER J. 1902 b. - Beitrage zur Faunistik und Biologie der Orthopteren Algeriens und Tunesiens, II. Theil. Zoologische Jahrbucher. Abteilung fur Systematik, Geographie Und Biologie Der Tiere 17: 1 - 99.","KIRBY W. F. 1910. - A Synonymic Catalogue of the Orthoptera. Vol. 3., Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 674 p.","DESCAMPS M. & MOUNASSIF M. 1972. - Le complexe Orchamus, Paracinipe, Acinipe et Pamphagus (Acridomorpha, Pamphagidae). Acrida. 1: 247 - 303.","MASSA B. 2013. - Pamphagidae (Orthoptera: Caelifera) of North Africa: key to genera and the annotated check-list of species. Zootaxa 3700 (3): 435 - 475. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3700.3.7","MASSA B. 1996. - Le specie del gen. Paracinipe Descamp & Mounassif del gruppo zebrata (Brunner) (Insecta Orthoptera Pamphagidae). Il Naturalista siciliano 20: 71 - 97."]}

Leptopternis maculata Vosseler, 1902 (Fig. 38) Leptopternis maculata Vosseler, 1902a: 380. — Chopard 1943: 324. Sphingonotus acrotyloides Werner, 1908: 715. TYPE SPECIMENS. — Algeria • ♂; syntype; Bou Saada; SMNS • ♀; syntype; Bou Saada; NHM. DISTRIBUTION. — Algeria (Moussi et al. 2018); Tunisia (Moussi et al. 2018); Libya (Massa 2009). DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Gafsa, Sfax (Vosseler 1902a); Maknassy (Chopard 1943). MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Tunisia • 1 ♀; Gabes, Ghanouch; 26.VII.2018; M. Ben Chouikha; coll. MBC • 1 ♀; Gabes, Mareth; 3.X.2018; M. Ben Chouikha; coll. MBC • 1♀; Maknassy, VI.1927; MNHN-EO-CAELIF9114. Algeria • 1 ♀; Bou Saada, Oued El Maittar; 17.X.1954; H. Maurel & R. P[asquier]; MNHN-EO-CAELIF493. NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Gafsa, Douwara. HABITAT. — This species lives in desertic steppe (H. Tlili, pers. obs.)., Published as part of 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, pp. 607-738 in Zoosystema 42 (31) on page 624, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a31, http://zenodo.org/record/4382361, {"references":["VOSSELER J. 1902 a. - Beitrage zur Faunistik und Biologie der Orthopteren Algeriens und Tunesiens. Zoologische Jahrbucher. Abteilung fur Systematik, Geographie Und Biologie Der Tiere 16: 337 - 404.","CHOPARD L. 1943. - Faune de l'Empire francais: I OrthopteroIdes de l'Afrique du Nord. Librairie Larose, Paris, 450 p.","WERNER F. 1908. - Diagnosen neuer Orthopteren von Tripolis und Barka. Zoologischer Anzeiger 32: 713 - 716.","MOUSSI A., DEY L. S., PETIT D., ABBA A., KLESSER R. & HUSEMANN M. 2018. - First genetic data for band-winged grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Oedipodinae) of the Biskra region of Algeria with new records for the country. African zoology 53 (1): 31 - 40. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 15627020.2018.1463172","MASSA B. 2009. - Annotated check-list of Orthoptera of Libya. Journal of Orthoptera Research 18 (1): 75 - 94. https: // doi. org / 10.1665 / 034.018.0109"]}

Helioscirtus capsitanus capsitanus (Bonnet, 1884) * (Fig. 34) Bryodema capsitana Bonnet, 1884: 548. Helioscirtus capsitanus – Bonnet & Finot 1885: 213. — Vosseler 1902a: 366. Vosseleria capsitana – Uvarov, 1923d: 30. Helioscirtus capsitanus capsitanus – Massa 2009: 84. TYPE SPECIMEN. — Tunisia • ♂; holotype; Bled Segui; MNHN. DISTRIBUTION. — Morocco (Defaut & François 2018); Algeria (Vosseler 1902a); Tunisia (Bonnet & Finot 1885); Libya (Massa 2009); Egypt (Haggag et al. 2008). DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Bled Segui (Bonnet & Finot 1885); Sfax, Gafsa (Vosseler 1902a). MATERIAL EXAMINED.— Tunisia • 1 ♂; holotype; Essagui; 27.V.1884; E. Bonnet; MNHN-EO-CAELIF480 Algeria • 1 ♀; Laghouat; 22.VI.1897; J.Vosseler; NHMUK 013806094 • 1♀; Msila; IV.1893; P. Lesne; MNHN-EO-CAELIF9111. NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — None. HABITAT. — This species lives in sandy desert (Vosseler 1902a)., Published as part of 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, pp. 607-738 in Zoosystema 42 (31) on page 623, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a31, http://zenodo.org/record/4382361, {"references":["BONNET E. 1884. - Orthoptera tunetana duo nova. Le Naturaliste, 2 (69): 548 - 549.","BONNET E. & FINOT A. 1885. - Les Orthopteres de la regence de Tunis. Revue des sciences naturelles, 3 eme serie 4: 193 - 232, 333 - 365.","VOSSELER J. 1902 a. - Beitrage zur Faunistik und Biologie der Orthopteren Algeriens und Tunesiens. Zoologische Jahrbucher. Abteilung fur Systematik, Geographie Und Biologie Der Tiere 16: 337 - 404.","UVAROV B. P. 1923 d. - Uber die Acrididen-Gattungen Helioscirtus Sauss. und Vosseleria, g. n., nebst Beschreibung zweier neuen Vosseleria - Arten von Somali. Konowia, Zeitschrift fur Systematische Insektenkunde 2: 29 - 32.","MASSA B. 2009. - Annotated check-list of Orthoptera of Libya. Journal of Orthoptera Research 18 (1): 75 - 94. https: // doi. org / 10.1665 / 034.018.0109","DEFAUT B. & FRANCOIS A. 2018. - Evaluation densitaires des Orthopteres en moyenne-Moulouya (Maroc oriental) (Ensifera, Caelifera, Mantodea). Materiaux Orthopteriques et entomocenotiques 23: 149 - 168.","HAGGAG F. A. A., EL- MOURSY A. A., EL- HAWAGRY M. A. & ABDEL- DAYEM M. S. 2008. - Systematic studies on the subfamily Oedipodinae (Acrididae, Orthoptera) from Egypt, excluding genus Sphingnotus Fieber. Bulltein of the Entomological Society of Egypt 85: 121 - 161."]}

Ochrilidia geniculata (Bolívar, 1913) (Fig. 25) Platypterna geniculata Bolívar, 1913: 608. — Chopard 1943: 263. Platypterna rothschildi Bolívar, 1913: 607. Platypterna kraussi Bolívar, 1913: 610. Platypterna lybica Salfi, 1925: 289. Platypterna pruinosa agedabiae Salfi, 1928: 244. Ochrilidia geniculata – Chopard 1949: 193. — Massa 1994: 6. TYPE SPECIMEN. — Algeria • ♂; lectotype (Jago 1977); El Golea; MNCN. DISTRIBUTION. — Widespread from North Africa (Chopard 1943; Usmani 2008) and sub-Saharan Africa across the Arabian Peninsula to Pakistan and India (Mestre & Chiffaud 2006); Iran (Garai 2011). DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Meknassi (Chopard 1943); Nefta, Gafsa, Mareth, Kerkennah Island (Massa 1994). MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Tunisia • 1 ♂; Gafsa, El Guetar; 30.IV.2017; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4673 • 1♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4674 • 1 ♀; same data; 04.X.2016; INAT • 1 ♂, 1 ♀; same data; ISA-CM • 1 ♀; Gafsa, Douwara; 20.VII.2016; H. Tlili; INAT. NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Gafsa, El Guetar, Sened, Douwara; Tozeur, Souani Ali; Kebili, Rahmet. HABITAT. — Widely distributed in grassland sub-desert areas (Usmani 2008). REMARKS. — Ochrilidia geniculata showed a mean density of 50 individuals/m ² in the site of Degache (Tozeur) at the herbaceous layer (without economic importance) (H. Tlili, pers. obs). DNA SEQUENCES. — We generated a new sequence for the mitochondrial marker COI (651 bp) (Table 4)., Published as part of 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, pp. 607-738 in Zoosystema 42 (31) on pages 620-621, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a31, http://zenodo.org/record/4382361, {"references":["BOLIVAR I. 1913. - Ernst Hartert's expedition to the Central Western Sahara. XVII. Orthopteres. Novitates Zoologicae 20: 603 - 615.","CHOPARD L. 1943. - Faune de l'Empire francais: I OrthopteroIdes de l'Afrique du Nord. Librairie Larose, Paris, 450 p.","SALFI M. 1925. - Contribuzioni alla conoscenza degli Ortotteri. I. Locustidae marmarici. Bollettino della Societa dei naturalisti in Napoli 36: 288 - 304.","SALFI M. 1928. - Contribuzioni alla conoscenza degli Ortotteri libici 4. Blattidae et Acrididae di Cirenaica. Bollettino della Societa dei naturalisti in Napoli 39: 225 - 270.","CHOPARD L. 1949. - Note sur les Orthopteroides du Sahara Marocain. Bulletin de la Societe Entomologique de France, Maroc 25 - 27 [1945 - 1947], 191 - 199.","MASSA B. 1994. - Note corologiche e biologiche su alcuni ortotteri mediterranei. Bollettino della Societa entomologica italiana Genova 126 (1): 3 - 8.","JAGO N. D. 1977. - Revision of the genus Ochrilidia Stal. 1873 with comments on the genera Sporobolius Uvarov, 1941 and Platypernodes I. Bolivar, 1908 (Orthoptera, Acrididae, Gomphocerinae). Acrida 6 (3): 163 - 217.","USMANI M. K. 2008. - Studies on Acridoidea (Orthoptera) with some new records from Fezzan, Libya. Zootaxa 1946: 1 - 41. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 1946.1.1","MESTRE J. & CHIFFAUD J. 2006. - Catalogue et atlas des acridiens d'Afrique de l'Ouest, 349 p.","GARAI A. G. 2011. - Contribution to the knowledge of the Iranian Orthopteroid insects II. Description of three new species of Iranian Platycleidini and one of Drymadusini. Esperiana 16: 67 - 72."]}

Mioscirtus wagneri wagneri (Eversmann, 1859) * (Fig. 40) Oedipoda wagneri Eversmann, 1859: 145. Scintharista wagneri ��� Saussure 1884: 121. Mioscirtus wagneri ��� Saussure 1888: 36. ��� Chopard 1943: 293. Scintharista (Mioscirtus) wagneri ��� Finot 1895: 448. Mioscirtus wagneri wagneri ��� Huang et al. 2013: 555. TYPE SPECIMEN. ��� Turkmenistan ��� ♀; holotype; Firiuza; ZIN. DISTRIBUTION. ��� North Africa (Chopard 1943); Egypt (Haggag et al. 2008); Iran (Hodjat et al. 2018); China, Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan (Huang et al. 2013). DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. ��� Tozeur (Chopard 1943). MATERIAL EXAMINED. ��� Algeria ��� 1♂; Oran; 1.X.1954; H. Maurel; MNHN-EO-CAELIF498 ��� 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF499. NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. ��� None. HABITAT. ��� This species lives in an environment characterized by halophilic plants (Moussi et al. 2011)., Published as part of 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, pp. 607-738 in Zoosystema 42 (31) on pages 624-625, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a31, http://zenodo.org/record/4382361, {"references":["EVERSMANN E. 1859. - Orthoptera volgo-uralensia. Bulletin de la Societe imperiale des naturalistes de Moscou 32 (1): 121 - 146.","SAUSSURE H. DE 1884. - Prodromus Oedipodiorum - Insectorum ex ordine Orthopterorum. Memoires de la Societe de physique et d'histoire naturelle de Geneve 28 (9): 1 - 256.","SAUSSURE H. DE 1888. - Additamenta ad prodrorum Oedipodiorum. Memoires de la Societe de physique et d'histoire naturelle de Geneve 30 (1): 1 - 182.","CHOPARD L. 1943. - Faune de l'Empire francais: I OrthopteroIdes de l'Afrique du Nord. Librairie Larose, Paris, 450 p.","FINOT A. 1895. - Faune de l'Algerie et de la Tunisie. Insectes Orthopteres. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France 64: 57 - 120, 401 - 552, 655 - 676.","HUANG J., STOROZHENKO S. Y., MAO B. & ZHENG Z. 2013. - Taxonomic notes on Pternoscirta pulchripes Uvarov, 1925 (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Oedipodinae) with proposal of new synonyms in the genera Flatovertex and Mioscirtus. Zootaxa 3718 (6): 545 - 560. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3718.6.3.","HAGGAG F. A. A., EL- MOURSY A. A., EL- HAWAGRY M. A. & ABDEL- DAYEM M. S. 2008. - Systematic studies on the subfamily Oedipodinae (Acrididae, Orthoptera) from Egypt, excluding genus Sphingnotus Fieber. Bulltein of the Entomological Society of Egypt 85: 121 - 161.","HODJAT S. H., TORK M., SEIEDY M. & DEFAUT B. 2018. - A taxonomic review of recorded species of Caelifera (Orthoptera) in Iran. Materriaux Orthopteriques et Entomologiques 23: 35 - 75.","MOUSSI A., ABBA A., HARRAT A. & PETIT D. 2011. - Desert acridian fauna (Orthoptera, Acridomorpha): Comparison between steppic and oasian habitats in Algeria. Comptes Rendus de Biologie 334 (2): 158 - 167. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. crvi. 2010.12.001"]}

Paratettix meridionalis (Rambur, 1838) (Fig. 77) Tetrix meridionalis Rambur, 1838: 65. Tetrix brachyptera Lucas & Brisout de Barneville, 1849: 65. Paratettix meridionalis ��� Montrouzier 1855: 111. Tettix meridionalis ��� Bol��var 1876: 369. ��� Bonnet & Finot 1885: 342. TYPE SPECIMEN. ��� Spain ��� ♀; lectotype (Uvarov 1948); Malaga; NHM. DISTRIBUTION. ��� This species is distributed throughout southern Europe and North Africa eastwards, reaching Iran and the Caucasus (Willemse et al. 2018). DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. ��� Tozeur (Bonnet & Finot 1885). MATERIAL EXAMINED. ��� Tunisia ��� 1 ♂; Tozeur, Souani Ali; 31.III.2016; K. Abdellaoui; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4732 ��� 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4733 ��� 1 ♀; same data; INAT. NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. ��� Tozeur, Souani Ali. HABITAT. ��� Humid places, gardens, oases, and irrigated areas (Chopard 1943)., Published as part of 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, pp. 607-738 in Zoosystema 42 (31) on page 710, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a31, http://zenodo.org/record/4382361, {"references":["RAMBUR J. P. 1838. - Faune entomologique de l' Andalousie. Orthopteres. Paris 2: 12 - 94 p. http: // mdz-nbn-resolving. de / urn: nbn: de: bvb: 12 - bsb 10308627 - 2","LUCAS P. H. & BRISOUT DE BARNEVILLE H. 1849. - In LUCAS P. H. Exploration Scientifique de l'Algerie: Histoire Naturelle des Animaux Articules. Les Orthopteres 3: 1 - 39.","MONTROUZIER P. 1855. - Essai sur la faune de l'ile de Woodlark ou Moiou. Annales de la Societe d'Agriculture 2 (1): 1 - 114.","BOLIVAR I. 1876. - Sinopsis de los Ortopteros de Espana y Portugal. Anales de la Sociedad Espanola de Historia Natural 5: 259 - 372","BONNET E. & FINOT A. 1885. - Les Orthopteres de la regence de Tunis. Revue des sciences naturelles, 3 eme serie 4: 193 - 232, 333 - 365.","UVAROV B. P. 1948. - Andalusian Orthoptera described by Rambur. Eos, Revista espanola de Entomologia 24: 369 - 390.","WILLEMSE L. P. M., KLEUKERS R. M. J. C. & ODE B. 2018. - The grasshoppers of Greece. EIS Kenniscentrum Insecten en andere ongewervelden. 440 p.","CHOPARD L. 1943. - Faune de l'Empire francais: I OrthopteroIdes de l'Afrique du Nord. Librairie Larose, Paris, 450 p."]}

Dociostaurus biskrensis Moussi & Petit, 2014 ** (Fig. 23) Dociostaurus biskrensis Moussi & Petit, 2014: 381. TYPE SPECIMEN. ��� Algeria ��� ♂; holotype; Biskra; MNHN-EO-CAELIF995. DISTRIBUTION. ��� Algeria (Moussi et al. 2014). DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. ��� None. MATERIAL EXAMINED.��� Tunisia ��� 1 ♂; Gafsa, El Guetar; 30.IV.2017; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4736 ��� 1♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4737 ��� 1♂; Gafsa, Amra; 26.IV.2019; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7101 ��� 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7102 ��� 1♂; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7103 ��� 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF 7104 ��� 1♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7105 ��� 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7106 ��� 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF 7107 ��� 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7108 ��� 1♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7109 ��� 1♂; Gafsa, Douwara; 27.IV.2019; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7055 ��� 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7056. NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. ��� Gafsa, El Guetar, Douwara. HABITAT. ��� Grassland (Moussi et al. 2014). REMARKS. ��� This species has been identified by A Louveaux (pers. comm.) and by one of the present authors (A. M.). It is thus recorded here for the first time in Tunisia., Published as part of 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, pp. 607-738 in Zoosystema 42 (31) on page 620, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a31, http://zenodo.org/record/4382361, {"references":["MOUSSI A., ABBA A., HARRAT A. & PETIT D. 2014. - Description of Dociostaurus biskrensis sp. nov. and male allotypes of four species: Pamphagulus bodenheimeri dumonti, P. uvarovi, Sphingonotus ebneri and Notopleura pygmaea (Orthoptera: Acridoidea) in the region of Biskra, Algeria. Zootaxa 3755 (4): 379 - 390. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3755.4.4"]}

Notopleura saharica Krauss, 1902 (Fig. 17) Notopleura saharica Krauss, 1902: 241. — Vosseler 1902a: 355. — Bolívar 1915: 34. — Chopard 1943: 279. TYPE SPECIMENS. — Algeria • ♂♂, ♀♀; syntypes; between Ghardaia and Guerrara; ZMHB. DISTRIBUTION. — Algeria (Zergoun et al. 2019); Tunisia (Vosseler 1902a); Libya (Massa 1998). DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Sfax (Vosseler 1902a; Bolívar 1915; Chopard 1943). MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Tunisia • 1♂; Gafsa, Amra; 26.IV.2019; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4739 • 1♀; Gafsa, Sened; 03.IV.2017; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF1905 • 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF 1906. NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Gafsa, Amra, Senad. HABITAT. — Desert and rocky environments with scattered vegetation (Uvarov 1924)., Published as part of 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, pp. 607-738 in Zoosystema 42 (31) on page 618, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a31, http://zenodo.org/record/4382361, {"references":["KRAUSS H. A. 1902. - Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Orthopteren- Fauna der Sahara. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Koniglichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 52: 230 - 254. https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 13332775","VOSSELER J. 1902 a. - Beitrage zur Faunistik und Biologie der Orthopteren Algeriens und Tunesiens. Zoologische Jahrbucher. Abteilung fur Systematik, Geographie Und Biologie Der Tiere 16: 337 - 404.","BOLIVAR I. 1915. - Extension de la fauna paleartica en Marruecos. Trabajos del Museo de Ciencias Naturales, (Serie Zoologica) 10, 83 p.","CHOPARD L. 1943. - Faune de l'Empire francais: I OrthopteroIdes de l'Afrique du Nord. Librairie Larose, Paris, 450 p.","ZERGOUN Y., GUEZOUL O., SEKOUR M., BOURAS N. & HOLTZ M. D. 2019. - Acridid (Orthoptera: Caelifera) diversity in agriculture ecosystems at three locations in the Mzab valley, Septentrional Sahara, Algeria. Journal of Insect Biodiversity 9 (1): 18 - 27. https: // doi. org / 10.12976 / jib / 2019.09.1.2","MASSA B. 1998. - Attuali conoscenze sugli Ortotteri della Libia (Insecta Orthoptera). Il Naturalista Siciliano 22: 235 - 320.","UVAROV B. P. 1924. - Some new and interesting Orthoptera in the collection of the Ministry of Agriculture. Bulletin - Ministry of Agriculture, Technical and Scientific Service 41: 1 - 41."]}

Anacridium aegyptium (Linnaeus, 1764) (Fig. 11) Gryllus (Locusta) aegyptius Linnaeus, 1764: 138. Acridium aegyptium – Stål, 1873: 63. — Bonnet & Finot 1885: 231 – Bolívar 1908: 125. Orthacanthacris aegyptia – Kirby 1910: 444. Anacridium aegyptium – Uvarov 1923a: 36. — Chopard 1943: 395 – Massa & Rizzo 1998: 284. TYPE SPECIMEN. — Egypt • unspecified; type lost (Cigliano et al. 2020); UUZM. DISTRIBUTION. — Widely distributed along the costal regions of the south and north Mediterranean Sea to East Asia (Willemse et al. 2018). DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Widely distributed in Tunisia (Bonnet & Finot 1885); Gabes (Massa & Rizzo 1998); Gabes, Gafsa (Chopard 1943). MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Tunisia • 1 ♂; Kasserine, Foussana; 26.IV.2016; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4661 • 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4662 • 1 ♂; same data; INAT • 1 ♀; same data; ISA-CM. NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Kasserine, Sbeitla, Foussana; Gafsa, Douwara. HABITAT. — Open bushy vegetation and woodland (Usmani 2008). DNA SEQUENCES. — We generated a new sequence for the mitochondrial marker COI (679 bp) (Table 4)., Published as part of 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, pp. 607-738 in Zoosystema 42 (31) on page 617, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a31, http://zenodo.org/record/4382361, {"references":["LINNAEUS C. 1764. - Museum S. R. M. Ludovicae Ulricae Reginae. Holmiae, Stockholm, 722 p.","STAL C. 1873. - Recensio orthopterorum. Revue critique des Orthopteres decrits par Linne, De Geer et Thunberg. Norstedt and Soner, Stockholm, part 1, 154 p.","BONNET E. & FINOT A. 1885. - Les Orthopteres de la regence de Tunis. Revue des sciences naturelles, 3 eme serie 4: 193 - 232, 333 - 365.","BOLIVAR I. 1908. - Note sur les Orthopteres recueillis par M. Henri Gadeau de Kerville en Khroumirie (Tunisie). Gadeau de Kerville, Voyage en Khroumirie, Paris, Bailliere et fils, 117 - 128.","KIRBY W. F. 1910. - A Synonymic Catalogue of the Orthoptera. Vol. 3., Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 674 p.","UVAROV B. P. 1923 a. - Notes on locusts of economic importance with some new data on the periodicity of locust invasion. Bulletin of Entomological Research 14: 31 - 39. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / S 0007485300028182","CHOPARD L. 1943. - Faune de l'Empire francais: I OrthopteroIdes de l'Afrique du Nord. Librairie Larose, Paris, 450 p.","MASSA B. & RIZZO M. C. 1998. - Orthoptera raccolti in Tunisia nel XIX secolo e conservati nel museo civico di storia naturale \" G. Doria \" di Genova. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale X. I.: 273 - 292.","CIGLIANO M. M., BRAUN H., EADES D. C. & OTTE D. 2020. - Orthoptera Species File. Version 5.0 / 5.0. Available from: http: // Orthoptera. SpeciesFile. org (accessed 29 November 2020).","WILLEMSE L. P. M., KLEUKERS R. M. J. C. & ODE B. 2018. - The grasshoppers of Greece. EIS Kenniscentrum Insecten en andere ongewervelden. 440 p.","USMANI M. K. 2008. - Studies on Acridoidea (Orthoptera) with some new records from Fezzan, Libya. Zootaxa 1946: 1 - 41. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 1946.1.1"]}

Pyrgomorpha cognata Krauss, 1877 (Fig. 74) Pyrgomorpha cognata Krauss, 1877: 58. ��� Vosseler 1902a: 387; 1902b: 7. ��� Chopard 1943: 338. TYPE SPECIMENS. ��� Senegal ��� ♂, ♀; syntypes; Dagana; NMW. DISTRIBUTION. ��� North Africa (Chopard 1943; Massa 2009); Sub-Saharan Africa (Mestre & Chiffaud 2006); Southwest Asia (��nal 2006). DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. ��� Sfax, Graiba, Gabes (Vosseler 1902a); Maknassy, Bou Hedma, Tozeur (Chopard 1943). MATERIAL EXAMINED. ��� Tunisia ��� 1 ♀; Sidi Bouzid, Bou Hedma; V.1929; C. Dumont; MNHN-EO-CAELIF968. Algeria ��� 1 ♂; AinTouta; 1929; A. Thery; MNHN-EO-CAELIF9127. Mauritania ��� 1♀; Aftout Faye, Sbaya; X.1987; A. Louveaux; MNHN-EO-CAELIF9128. NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. ��� None. HABITAT. ��� Dry areas (Usmani 2008)., Published as part of 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, pp. 607-738 in Zoosystema 42 (31) on page 709, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a31, http://zenodo.org/record/4382361, {"references":["KRAUSS H. A. 1877. - Orthoptera von Senegal, gesammelt von Dr. Franz Steindachner. Sitzungsberichte der Osterreichischen Akademie derWissenschaften. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse 76 (1): 29 - 63.","VOSSELER J. 1902 a. - Beitrage zur Faunistik und Biologie der Orthopteren Algeriens und Tunesiens. Zoologische Jahrbucher. Abteilung fur Systematik, Geographie Und Biologie Der Tiere 16: 337 - 404.","VOSSELER J. 1902 b. - Beitrage zur Faunistik und Biologie der Orthopteren Algeriens und Tunesiens, II. Theil. Zoologische Jahrbucher. Abteilung fur Systematik, Geographie Und Biologie Der Tiere 17: 1 - 99.","CHOPARD L. 1943. - Faune de l'Empire francais: I OrthopteroIdes de l'Afrique du Nord. Librairie Larose, Paris, 450 p.","MASSA B. 2009. - Annotated check-list of Orthoptera of Libya. Journal of Orthoptera Research 18 (1): 75 - 94. https: // doi. org / 10.1665 / 034.018.0109","MESTRE J. & CHIFFAUD J. 2006. - Catalogue et atlas des acridiens d'Afrique de l'Ouest, 349 p.","UNAL M. 2006. - KIrIkkale Orthopter'lerinin Fauna, Ekoloji ve Taksonomisi Uzerine ArastIrmalar. Priamus supplement 3: 1 - 50.","USMANI M. K. 2008. - Studies on Acridoidea (Orthoptera) with some new records from Fezzan, Libya. Zootaxa 1946: 1 - 41. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 1946.1.1"]}

Genus Tropidopola Stål, 1873 (Fig. 58), Published as part of 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, pp. 607-738 in Zoosystema 42 (31) on page 704, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a31, http://zenodo.org/record/4382361, {"references":["STAL C. 1873. - Recensio orthopterorum. Revue critique des Orthopteres decrits par Linne, De Geer et Thunberg. Norstedt and Soner, Stockholm, part 1, 154 p."]}