Tenuitarsus angustus

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/438236