Calliptamus wattenwylianus (Pantel, 1896)

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Caloptenus italicus var. wattenwyliana Pantel, 1896: 70 .

Calliptamus italicus var. wattenwylianus – Jacobson & Bianchi 1902: 317.

Calliptamus wattenwylianus – Werner 1932: 173. — Massa & Rizzo 1998: 284.

Calliptamus wattenwylianus wattenwylianus – Baroni et al. 2018: 6.

TYPE SPECIMENS. — Spain • ♂, ♀; lectotype, paralectotype (Defaut 2012); Sitio; MNHN .

DISTRIBUTION. — Only present along the Mediterranean Coast from North Africa (Jago 1963), France (Chopard 1951), Spain (Heller et al. 1998), Italy (Baroni et al. 2018).

DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Tamerza (Massa & Rizzo 1998).

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Tunisia • 1 ♂; Kasserine, Laayoune; 5.VIII.2016; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4660 • 1 ♂; Gafsa, Sened; 17.VII.2016; H.Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7029 .

NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Kasserine, Laayoune; Gafsa, Sened.

HABITAT. — Calliptamus wattenwylianus almost always coexists in the same habitat with Calliptamus barbarus barbarus (H. Tlili, pers. obs).

DNA SEQUENCES. — We generated a new sequence for the mitochondrial marker COI (675 bp) (Table 4).