Aiolopus puissanti Defaut, 2005 **

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Aiolopus puissanti Defaut, 2005b: 105 .

TYPE SPECIMEN. — Morocco • ♂; holotype; Sidi Bou Knadel; MNHN.

DISTRIBUTION. — France, Espagne, Morocco (Defaut & Jaulin 2008); Portugal (Pina et al. 2017); Algeria (Zergoun et al. 2019); Iran (Hodjat et al. 2018).

DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — None.

MATERIAL EXAMINED.— Morocco • 1♂; holotype; Sidi Bou Knadel; 1.XI.1981; B. Defaut; MNHN-EO-CAELIF472.

Tunisia • 1 ♂; Gafsa, Douwara; 20.VII.2016; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF 4679 • 1 ♀; Gafsa, El Guetar; 30.IV.2017; H. TliliMNHN-EO-CAELIF 7084 • 1♂; same data; 25.V.2017; MNHN-EO-CAELIF 7439 .

NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Gafsa, Douwara; Tozeur, Souani Ali.

HABITAT. — Aiolopus puissanti almost always coexists in the same habitat with Aiolopus strepens strepens (H. Tlili, pers. obs).

REMARKS. — The morphometric analysis of the North African specimens differs enough to distinguish the European specimens of A. thalassinus (Fabricius, 1871) as a different species (Defaut 2005b; Defaut & Jaulin 2008).