Anacridium aegyptium (Linnaeus, 1764)

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Gryllus (Locusta) aegyptius Linnaeus, 1764: 138 .

Acridium aegyptium – Stål, 1873: 63. — Bonnet & Finot 1885: 231 – Bolívar 1908: 125.

Orthacanthacris aegyptia – Kirby 1910: 444.

Anacridium aegyptium – Uvarov 1923a: 36. — Chopard 1943: 395 – Massa & Rizzo 1998: 284.

TYPE SPECIMEN. — Egypt • unspecified; type lost (Cigliano et al. 2020); UUZM .

DISTRIBUTION. — Widely distributed along the costal regions of the south and north Mediterranean Sea to East Asia (Willemse et al. 2018).

DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Widely distributed in Tunisia (Bonnet & Finot 1885); Gabes (Massa & Rizzo 1998); Gabes, Gafsa (Chopard 1943).

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Tunisia • 1 ♂; Kasserine, Foussana; 26.IV.2016; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4661 • 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4662 • 1 ♂; same data; INAT • 1 ♀; same data; ISA-CM .

NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Kasserine, Sbeitla, Foussana; Gafsa, Douwara.

HABITAT. — Open bushy vegetation and woodland (Usmani 2008).

DNA SEQUENCES. — We generated a new sequence for the mitochondrial marker COI (679 bp) (Table 4).