Jaculus jaculus (Linnaeus, 1758) . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:63.

TYPE LOCALITY: Egypt, Giza Pyramids .

DISTRIBUTION: Africa, NE Nigeria (Happold, 1987) and Niger, from SW Mauritania to Morocco, E through Algeria (Kowalski and Rzebik-Kowalska, 1991), Tunisia (Vesmanis, 1984) and Libya (Ranck, 1968) to Egypt (Osborn and Helmy, 1980), Sudan, and Somalia; throughout Arabia (Harrsion and Bates, 1991) to SW Iran (Lay, 1967).

SYNONYMS: aegyptius, airensis, arenaceous, butteri, centralis, collinsi, cufrensis, darricarrerei, deserti, elbaensis, favillus, favonicus, florentiae, fuscipes, gordoni, hirtipes ?, loftusi, macromystax, macrotarsusl, oralis, rarus, schlueteri, sefrius, syrius, tripolitanicus, vastus, vocator, vulturnus, whitchurchi (see Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951; and Corbet, 1978c).

COMMENTS: Ranck (1968) recognized two species in this complex, J. jaculus and J. deserti, but Harrison (1978) showed that they are conspecific based on Ranck's criteria (see also discussion in Corbet, 1978c:152). Karyotype given by Al Saleh and Khan (1984). See comment under J. turcmenicus .