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 Anacridium aegyptium ( Linnaeus, 1764 ) ( Fig. 11 ) 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 ).