Sphingoderus carinatus (Saussure, 1888) (Fig. 46) Sphingonotus coerulans var. carinata Saussure, 1888: 79. Sphingonotus coerulans var. mecheriae Krauss, 1893: XCV. Sphingonotus mecheriae – Vosseler 1902a: 370 (misidentification). Sphingonotus carinatus – Mistshenko 1936: 186. — Chopard 1943: 312. Sphingoderus carinatus – Bey-Bienko 1950: 203. — Husemann et al. 2012. TYPE SPECIMEN. — Algeria • ♀; holotype; Biskra; ZIN. DISTRIBUTION. — Algeria (Zergoun et al. 2019); Tunisia (Moussi et al. 2018); Egypt (Haggag et al. 2008). DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Gabes, Gafsa, Bou Hedma (Vosseler 1902a); Bou Hedma (Husemann et al. 2012). MATERIAL EXAMINED.— Tunisia • 1 ♂; Gafsa, Metkides; 01.VI.2016; H.Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4697 • 1 ♂, 2♀; same data; INAT • 1♀; Tozeur, Degache; 29.IV.2017; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4698 • 1 ♂; Kasserine, Sbeitela; 25.VII.2017; M. Mahfoudhi; MNHN-EO-CAELIF 7089 • 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7090 • 1♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7091 • 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF 7092 • 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF7093 • 1 ♀; same data; INAT. NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Kasserine, Sbeitla; Gafsa, Metkides; Tozeur, Degach; Kebili, Essagui. HABITAT. — Sub desert areas (H. Tlili, pers. obs.). DNA SEQUENCES. — We generated a new sequence for the mitochondrial marker COI (651 bp) (Table 4).

Published as part of Tlili, Haithem, Abdellaoui, Khemais, Chintauan-Marquier, Ioana C., Chouikha, Manel Ben, Moussi, Abdelhamid, Ammar, Mohamed & Desutter-Grandcolas, Laure, 2020, Checklist and taxonomic updates in grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Caelifera) of central and southwestern Tunisia with new records and a key for species identification, pp. 607-738 in Zoosystema 42 (31) on page 626, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a31, http://zenodo.org/record/4382361