Sphingonotus (Sphingonotus) savignyi Saussure, 1884

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Sphingonotus savignyi Saussure, 1884: 208 . — Vosseler 1902a: 378. — Massa & Rizzo 1998: 286.

Pseudosphingonotus savignyi – Shumakov 1963: 158.

Sphingonotus (Sphingonotus) savignyi savignyi – Dey et al. 2018: 170.

TYPE SPECIMENS. — Egypt • 2 ♂; possible syntypes (Hollier 2012a); MHNG .

DISTRIBUTION. — This species is well-known from Central Asia to North and Sub-Saharan Africa (Mistshenko 1936).

DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Southern Tunisia (Vosseler 1902a); Tamerza (Massa & Rizzo 1998).

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Tunisia • 1 ♂; Tozeur, Degache; 29.IV.2017; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4701 • 1 ♂; same data; 29.IV.2016; MNHN-EO-CAELIF9118 • 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF9119 • 1 ♀; Tozeur, Gouifla; 02. VI.2016; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4711 • 4 ♂, 4 ♀; same data; INAT .

NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Tozeur, Gouifla.

HABITAT. — Subdesert and desert environment (Chopard 1950, Tlili et al. 2019a).

DNA SEQUENCES. — We generated new sequences for two markers: COI (670 bp) and ND2 (458 bp) (Table 4).