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 Ocneridia nigropunctata ( Lucas, 1849 ) ( Fig. 66 ) Pamphagus nigropunctatus Lucas, 1849b: 28 . Acinipe ( Pamphagus ) nigropunctata – Lucas 1851: 359 . Porthetis nigropunctata – Walker 1870a: 597 . Nocarodes nigropunctatus – Bolívar 1878: 439 . Porthetis canonicus Fischer, 1853: 386 . Ocnerodes nigro-punctatus – Bonnet & Finot 1885: 340 . Ocnerodes nigropunctatus – Finot 1895: 496 . Ocnerodes canonicus – Bonnet & Finot 1885: 340 . — Vosseler 1902a: 389 . Ocneridia canonica – Bolívar, 1912: 7 . — Chopard 1943: 350 . Ocneridia nigropunctata – Bolívar, 1916: 24 . — Chopard 1943: 349 . Ocneridia nigro-punctata – Johnston 1956: 76 . TYPE SPECIMENS. — Algeria • ♂ “hololectotypus”, ♀ , “ allolectotypus ” ( Massa & Biondi 1987 ); Milah; Constantine ( Massa & Biondi 1987 ); MNHN . DISTRIBUTION. — Algeria , Tunisia ( Chopard 1943 ); Libya ( Massa 1998 ); Sicily ( Iorio et al. 2019 ). DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA . — This species was previously recorded from northern Tunisia ( Bonnet & Finot 1885 ; Finot 1895 ; Bolívar 1908 ; Chopard 1943 ; Massa & Biondi 1987 ). MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Algeria • 1 ♂ ; Constantine ; IV.1840 ; H. Lucas ; “hololectotypus”; MNHN-EO-CAELIF211 • 1 ♀ ; same data; “ allolectotypus ”; MNHN-EO-CAELIF212 . Tunisia • 1 ♂ ; Kasserine , Mehreza ; 26.IV.2016 ; H. Tlili ; MNHN-EO-CAELIF 4719 • 1 ♀ ; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4720 • 1 ♂ ; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7066 • 2 ♀ ; same data; INAT • 1 ♀ ; Kasserine , Foussana ; 26.IV.2016 ; H. Tlili ; INAT . NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA . — Kasserine , Mehreza, Foussana. HABITAT. — Foothills of grassy mountains (H. Tlili, pers. obs). DNA SEQUENCES. — We generated a new sequence for the mitochondrial marker COI (656 bp) ( Table 4 ).