Checklist and taxonomic updates in grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Caelifera) of central and southwestern Tunisia with new records and a key for species identification Author Tlili, Haithem Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science of Tunis, University Tunis El Manar, 2092 El Manar Tunis (Tunisia); Laboratory of Bioagressors and Integrated Protection in Agriculture (BPIA), National Institute of Agronomy of Tunisia, University of Cartage, 43 Avenue Charles Nicolle, Tunis 1082 (Tunisia) and Institut de Systématique, Évolution et Biodiversité (ISYEB), Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, CNRS UPMC EPHE UA, 57 rue Cuvier, case postale 50, 75231 Paris Cedex 05 (France) haithem. tlili @ fst. utm. tn / haithem. tlili @ mnhn. fr (corresponding author) tlili@mnhn.fr Author Abdellaoui, Khemais Department of biological sciences and plants protection, Higher Agronomic Institute of Chott Mariem, Sousse University B. P 47, 4042 Chott Mériem Sousse-Tunis (Tunisia) Author Chintauan-Marquier, Ioana C. Institut de Systématique, Évolution et Biodiversité (ISYEB), Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, CNRS UPMC EPHE UA, 57 rue Cuvier, case postale 50, 75231 Paris Cedex 05 (France) Author Chouikha, Manel Ben Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences of Gabes, University of Gabes, Gabes (Tunisia) Laboratory of Livestock and wildlife, Arid Land Institute, Djorf Street, 4119 Medenine (Tunisia) Author Moussi, Abdelhamid Department of Nature and Life Sciences, University of Biskra, BP 145 RP, 07000 Biskra (Algeria) Author Ammar, Mohamed Laboratory of Bioagressors and Integrated Protection in Agriculture (BPIA), National Institute of Agronomy of Tunisia, University of Cartage, 43 Avenue Charles Nicolle, Tunis 1082 (Tunisia) Author Desutter-Grandcolas, Laure Institut de Systématique, Évolution et Biodiversité (ISYEB), Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, CNRS UPMC EPHE UA, 57 rue Cuvier, case postale 50, 75231 Paris Cedex 05 (France) * Last co-authors with equal rank text Zoosystema 2020 2020-12-15 42 31 607 738 journal article 9259 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a31 c5485455-7e73-4576-a5dd-ece493b0a087 1638-9387 4382361 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:ED85BA40-9044-4174-AD62-8782A3A00805 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).