Scintharista notabilis notabilis (Walker, 1870)

(Fig. 45)

Acridium miniatum Brullé, 1840: 78 (name preoccupied, mentioned by Bolívar 1922: 174).

Oedipoda notabilis Walker, 1870a: 745 .

Oedipoda brullei Saussure, 1884: 148 .

Quiroguesia miniata – Bolívar 1886: 516.

Quiroguesia brullei – Saussure 1888: 52.

Quiroguesia notabilis – Kirby 1910: 217.

Scintharista notabilis – Willemse 1936: 102.

Scintharista notabilis notabilis – Uvarov 1941: 93.

TYPE SPECIMEN. — Canary Islands • unspecified; syntypes; Tenerife; NHM .

DISTRIBUTION. — Sub-Saharan Africa (Mestre & Chiffaud 2006); Morocco (Chopard 1943); Algeria (Moussi et al. 2018); Tunisia (Uvarov 1941); Libya (Massa 1998); Egypt (Haggag et al. 2008).

DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Gafsa (Uvarov 1941).

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Canary Islands • unspecified syntype; Tenerife; NHMUK 013806005 • same data; NHMUK 013806005 .

Tunisia • 1 ♂; Gafsa, Ben Younes Mountain; 17.VII.2016; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4695 • 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF 4696 • 2 ♂; Gafsa, El Guetar; 30.IV.2017; H. Tlili; INAT .

NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Gafsa, Ben Younes Mountain, El Guetar.

HABITAT. — Generally, Scintharista notabilis notabilis occurs in dry mountain and stony places (H. Tlili, pers. obs).