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).