Sphingonotus (Sphingonotus) octofasciatus (Serville, 1838)

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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).