Stenohippus mundus (Walker, 1871) ***

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Stenobothrus mundus Walker, 1871: 79 .

Stenobothrus epacromioides var. nigrovittata Krauss, 1892b: 166 .

Stenobothrus bonneti Bolívar, 1885: 116 . — Finot 1895: 425. — Vosseler 1902b: 5.

Omocestus bonneti – Kirby 1910: 172.

Stauroderus nigrovittatus – Kirby 1910: 180.

Dociostaurus mundus – Kirby 1914: 119.

Stauroderus bonneti – Bolívar 1915: 33.

Stenohippus mundus – Uvarov 1926c: 425.

Stenohippus epacromioides var. nigrovittata – Uvarov 1926c: Ibid. 425.

Stenohippus bonneti – Uvarov 1926c: 425. — Chopard 1943: 277.

TYPE SPECIMEN. — India • ♂; holotype; Bombay; NHM .

DISTRIBUTION. — This species is present in North and sub-Saharan Africa, across Saudi Arabia to Pakistan and India (Mestre & Chiffaud 2006).

DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Bir Beni Zid, Chott Fedjej (Finot 1895); Bou Hedma (Chopard 1943).

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Tunisia • 1 ♂; Gafsa, Amra; 26.IV.2019; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7030 • 1♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7031 • 1 ♂; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7432 • 1♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7433 • 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7434 • 1♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7435 • 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7436 • 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7437 • 1♀; Gafsa, El Guetar; 30.IV.2017; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF 4672 • 1 ♂; same data; INAT • 1 ♂; Tozeur, Souani Ali; 31.III.2016; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4671 .

NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Gafsa, Amra, El Guetar; Tozeur, Souani Ali.

HABITAT. — Waddies and depressions (Maxwell-Darling 1934).

REMARKS. — Stenohippus mundus has an extensive distribution from East Africa (Maxwell-Darling 1934) to West Asia (Walker 1871). In North Africa, the last record of this species was in 1884 by Bonnet. We confirm here the presence of S. mundus in Tunisia.

DNA SEQUENCES. — We generated a new sequence for the mitochondrial marker COI (658 bp) (Table 4).