Sphingonotus (Sphingonotus) lucasii Saussure, 1888 (Fig. 51) Sphingonotus azurescens – Bonnet & Finot 1885: 214 (misidentification rectified by Chopard 1943: 313). Sphingonotus scabriusculus var. lucasii Saussure, 1888: 83 – Finot 1895: 475. Sphingonotus lucasii – Vosseler 1902a: 374. — Hollier 2012a: 251. Sphingonotus lucasi – Bolívar 1915: 38. — Chopard 1943: 313. Wernerella pachecoi dimidiata Bolívar, 1936: 404. TYPE SPECIMENS. — Algeria • ♂, ♀; syntypes; MHNG. DISTRIBUTION. — Morocco (Moussi et al. 2018); Algeria, Tunisia (Hollier 2012a). DATA FROM LITERATURE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Wide distribution in Tunisia (Finot 1895); Gafsa, Sfax, Graiba (Vosseler 1902a). MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Tunisia • 1 ♂; Gafsa, Sened; 17.VII.2017; H. Tlili; MNHN-EO-CAELIF4705 • 1 ♀; same data; MNHN-EO-CAELIF 4706. NEW DATA FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN TUNISIA. — Gafsa, Sened. HABITAT. — Sub desertic areas (H. Tlili, pers. obs.). REMARKS. — A few specimens were collected from one locality only. DNA SEQUENCES. — We generated new sequences for two markers: COI (666 bp) and ND2 (457 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 703, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a31, http://zenodo.org/record/4382361