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).