Ocneridia nigropunctata (Lucas, 1849)

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Pamphagus nigropunctatus Lucas, 1849b: 28 .

Acinipe (Pamphagus) nigropunctata – Lucas 1851: 359.

Porthetis nigropunctata – Walker 1870a: 597.

Nocarodes nigropunctatus – Bolívar 1878: 439.

Porthetis canonicus Fischer, 1853: 386 .

Ocnerodes nigro-punctatus – Bonnet & Finot 1885: 340.

Ocnerodes nigropunctatus – Finot 1895: 496.

Ocnerodes canonicus – Bonnet & Finot 1885: 340. — Vosseler 1902a: 389.

Ocneridia canonica – Bolívar, 1912: 7. — Chopard 1943: 350.

Ocneridia nigropunctata – Bolívar, 1916: 24. — Chopard 1943: 349.

Ocneridia nigro-punctata – Johnston 1956: 76.

TYPE SPECIMENS. — Algeria • ♂ “hololectotypus”, ♀, “ allolectotypus ” (Massa & Biondi 1987); Milah; Constantine (Massa & Biondi 1987); MNHN.

DISTRIBUTION. — Algeria, Tunisia (Chopard 1943); Libya (Massa 1998); Sicily (Iorio et al. 2019).

DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — This species was previously recorded from northern Tunisia (Bonnet & Finot 1885; Finot 1895; Bolívar 1908; Chopard 1943; Massa & Biondi 1987).

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Algeria • 1 ♂; Constantine; IV.1840; H. Lucas; “hololectotypus”; MNHN-EO-CAELIF211 • 1 ♀; same data; “ allolectotypus ”; MNHN-EO-CAELIF212 .

Tunisia • 1 ♂; Kasserine, Mehreza; 26.IV.2016; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF 4719 • 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4720 • 1 ♂; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7066 • 2 ♀; same data; INAT • 1 ♀; Kasserine, Foussana; 26.IV.2016; H. Tlili; INAT .

NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Kasserine, Mehreza, Foussana.

HABITAT. — Foothills of grassy mountains (H. Tlili, pers. obs).

DNA SEQUENCES. — We generated a new sequence for the mitochondrial marker COI (656 bp) (Table 4).