Afrania brachyptera ( Schaum, 1853 )

Kment, Petr, Jindra, Zdeněk & Rider, David A., 2014, New synonymies and new records of Afrotropical and Madagascan Pentatominae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae), Zootaxa 3866 (3), pp. 371-397 : 392-393

Afrania brachyptera ( Schaum, 1853) stat. restit.

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Agonoscelis brachyptera Schaum, 1853: 357 (description, faunistics). Syntype (s): Mozambique (ZMHB?).

Strachia Wahlbergi Stål, 1854: 220 (description, faunistics): Syntype (s): South Africa: ‘Habitat in tractibus fluvii Limpopo’ [= in arcs of the river Limpopo] (NHRS). Synonymised by Stål (1865: 181) with a question mark, but treated as valid species by Stål (1876: 85), syn. restit.

Agonoscelis brachyptera: Dohrn (1859) : 12 (catalog).

Strachia Wahlbergi : Dohrn (1859): 17 (catalog).

Agonoscelis brachyptera: Schaum (1862) : 37−38, Pl. II: Fig. 2 (redescription, figure of habitus).

Afrania Wahlbergi : Stål (1865): 180 −181 (redescription, new combination, new synonymy, faunistics); Walker (1867a): 234 (catalog, faunistics).

Sala colorata Walker, 1867b: 405 (description). Syntypes (2 unsexed specimens): ‘E. Africa. Presented by Earl Russell’ (BMNH). Synonymised by Distant (1900b: 390).

Afrania Wahlbergii (incorrect subsequent spelling): Stål (1876): 60, 85 (key to genera, catalog).

Afrania brachyptera: Stål (1876) : 85 (catalog; as valid species); Distant (1889): 386 (faunistics); Lethierry & Severin (1893): 151 (catalog, as synonym of wahlbergi ); Kirkaldy (1909): 98 (catalog, as synonym of wahlbergi ); Robertson (2009): 215 −216 (catalog, as synonym of wahlbergi ).

Afrania Wahlbergi : Lethierry & Severin (1893): 151 (catalog); Distant (1898): 297, 306, 311 (faunistics); Distant (1900b): 390 (new synonymy); Distant (1900c): 434 (new synonymy).

Sala colorata: Lethierry & Severin (1893): 207 (catalog); Distant (1900b): 390 (new synonymy); Distant (1900c): 434 (new synonymy).

Afrania Wahlbergi : Schouteden (1909): 56 (listed); Jeannel (1913): 39 (distribution); Schumacher (1913): 55 (faunistics); Courteaux (1922): 269 (faunistics).

Afrania wahlberg i: Kirkaldy (1909): 98, 371 (catalog); Robertson (2009): 215 −216 (catalog).

Material examined. BOTSWANA: Shakawe-Camp, 22.−24. ii.1998, 1 ♀, U. Göllner lgt. ( ZMHB).— DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO: Katanga: Elisabethville [= Lumumbashi], I.G. 12.204, 24. xii.1938, 1 ♂, H. J. Brédo lgt. ( ISNB).— MALAWI ( Nyasaland): Nyassa, 1 ♂ 1 ♀, Distant Coll. ( BMNH); Chiromo, no date, 1 ♀, R. C. Wood lgt., Uvarov det. ( BMNH); Chiromo, 400 ft [= 122 m a.s.l.], 17.–20. iv.1910, 2 ♂♂ 1 ♀, S. A. Neave lgt. ( BMNH); Fort Johnston, 1 spec., P. Rendall lgt., Distant Coll. ( BMNH); Kondowe to Karonga, vi.1896, 3 ♂♂ 3 ♀♀, A. Whyte lgt. ( BMNH); Lingadzi, nr. Domira Bay, 1700 ft [= 518 m a.s.l.], 1. vi.1915, 1 ♀, W. A. Lamborn lgt. ( BMNH); Lower Shire Valley, nr. Chikawa, 600 ft [= 183 m a.s.l.], 12.–16. iv.1910, 1 ♂ (newly hatched), S. A. Neave lgt. ( BMNH); Malperera, no date, 1 ♂, H. Malcolm Ross lgt. ( BMNH); between Mvera and L. Nyasa, 12.–21. x.1910, 2 ♂♂ 2 ♀♀, S. A. Neave lgt. ( BMNH); Domira Bay, W. shore L. Nyasa, 18.–21. x.1910, 4 ♂♂ 5 ♀♀, S. A. Neave lgt. ( BMNH); Mlanje, 21. i.1913, 1 ♂, 22. i.1913, 1 ♂, 24. iii.1913, 1 ♂, S. A. Neave lgt. ( BMNH); Mlanje Boma, 2,400 ft [= 732 m a.s.l.], 26.–30.iv. and 3.–5. v.1910, 1 ♂ 1 ♀, S. A. Neave ( BMNH); W. shore of L. Nyasa between Domira Bay and Kotakota, 1 ♀, 29.x.–3. xi.1910, 1 ♀, S. A. Neave lgt. ( BMNH); Angoniland, Brit. Cent. Af., 1 ♀, C. B. C. Storey lgt. ( BMNH).— MOZAMBIQUE: Beira env., Manga, 27. vii.1929, 1 ♀, P. Lesne lgt. ( MNHN); Haut Nhamapaza, Forêt, S d. de Maringoué, vi.1929, 1 ♀, P. Lesne lgt. ( MNHN); Prov de Gorongoza, Tendos du Sungoué et Riy Vunduzi, 40 m a.s.l., 1907, 1 ♀, G. Vasse lgt. ( MNHN); Vallée du Pompoué, vii.1929, 1 ♂, P. Lesne lgt. ( MNHN); Zambéze, Chiramba, 3. ii.1929, 1 ♀, P. Lesne lgt. ( MNHN); Zambéze, Nova Choupanga prés Chemba, v.1928, 1 ♀, 5. vi.1929, 1 ♀, P. Lesne lgt. ( MNHN); Zambéze, Sijal, 1929, 1 ♀, P. Lesne lgt. ( MNHN); Zambéze, Tambara, ii.1929, 1 ♀, P. Lesne lgt. ( MNHN); Zambéze, 1882, 1 ♂, Durand lgt., J. Martin 1898 det. ( MNHN); E, Lumbo, ix.1983, 1 ♀, F. Králík lgt. ( ZJPC).— SOUTH AFRICA: Gauteng: Transv[aal], Pret[oria] Mus[eum], 1 ♀, Distant Coll. ( BMNH); Transvaal, Pretoria, feeds on lucerne, 20. xii.1915, 1 ♂, C. Fuller lgt. ( BMNH). KwaZulu-Natal: Natal, St. Lucia Park, Charter’s Creek (28°12′S 32°26′E), 2. xii.1995, 1 ♂, Koch lgt. ( ZMHB); Weenen, iii.1925, 1 ♂ 1 ♀, xi.1928 – iii.1929, 3 ♂♂ 1 ♀, H. P. Thomasset lgt. ( BMNH).— TANZANIA: Tanganyika: Ilonga, 17. x.1962, 2 ♂♂ 2 ♀♀, E. S. Brown lgt. ( BMNH); Kondoa, 1885, 4 ♀♀, Bloyet lgt. ( MNHN); Tanganyka, Lake Nyassa, 9°30´S 34°00´E, 1,600 ft [= 488 m a.s.l.], 28. viii.1958, 1 ♂ 1 ♀, Cambridge E. African Exped. ( BMNH); Songea, 1100 m a.s.l., 28.iv.−2. v.1936, 1 ♀, Zerny lgt. ( NHMW). Zanzibar: Zanzibar 77/4, no details, 1 ♀ ( BMNH).— UGANDA: N, Parages du Rodolphe, 1905, 1 ♂, M. de Rothschild lgt. ( MNHN).— ZAMBIA: Haut-Zambéze, 1 ♂ 1 ♀, E. Foa lgt., J. Martin 1898 det. ( MNHN); N. E. Rhodesia, Niamadzi R., Nr. Nawalia, 2,000 ft [= 610 m a.s.l.], 17.–22. viii.1910, 2 ♀♀, S. A. Neave lgt. ( BMNH); N. E. Rhodesia, near Petauke, 2,400 ft [= 732 m a.s.l.], 18.–20. ix.1910, 2 ♂♂ 3 ♀♀, S. A. Neave lgt. ( BMNH); N. E. Rodesia, Upper Luangwa R., 27.vii.–13. viii.1910, 1 ♂ 3 ♀♀ 3 larvae, S. A. Neave lgt. ( BMNH); N. E. Rhodesia, Luwumbu Valley, Upper Luangwa, 2,500–3,500 ft [= 762−1067 m a.s.l.], 19.–26. vii.1910, 5 ♂♂ 2 ♀♀ 3 larvae, S. A. Neave lgt. ( BMNH); N. E. Rhodesia, Mid Luangwa V[alle]y, 3– 1,800 ft [= 0.9− 549 m a.s.l.], 23.–31. viii.1910, 4 ♂♂ 1 ♀, S. A. Neave lgt. ( BMNH, 1 ♂ NMPC); N. E. Rhodesa, L. Bangweulu dist., N’Salushi Island, from rough grass, 16. xi.1946, 1 ♀, M. Steele lgt. ( BMNH).— ZIMBABWE: Matopos NP, 3.−7. i.1995, 1 ♂, W. Howorka lgt. ( NHMW); Mashonaland, Umpuli Riv., 1 ♂ 1 spec., G. W. Marshall lgt., Distant Coll. ( BMNH); Matabele, 1 ♂, Distant Coll. ( BMNH).

Distribution. Angola ( Schumacher 1913, as ‘ Angola: Sumpfgebiet des Maschi von Sambala bis Ra-unga [= marshland of Maschi (= Kwando river) environs from Sambala to Ra-unga (?= Rundu)’], Botswana (new record), Democratic Republic of the Congo: Katanga (new record), Kenya ( Courteaux 1922), Malawi ( Distant 1898; this paper), Mozambique ( Schaum 1853, 1862; this paper), Namibia ( Schumacher 1913, as ‘Deutsche Sambesigebiet’), South Africa ( Stål 1865, Walker 1867a, Distant 1898; this paper), Tanzania: Tanganyika, Zanzibar (new record), Uganda (new record), Zambia ( Schumacher 1913, as ‘West-Barothe [= Western Barotseland]’; this paper), Zimbabwe ( Distant 1889, 1898; this paper).

Note. Agonoscelis brachyptera was briefly described by Schaum (1853) from Mozambique; detailed description and colour figure of habitus were published later by Schaum (1862). Stål’s description of Strachia Wahlbergi from South Africa, Limpopo Province, though published with year 1853, actually appeared a year later ( Stål 1854: 220). Stål (1865: 181) treated Agonoscelis brachyptera as a synonym of Afrania wahlbergi with a question mark, but Stål (1876: 85) listed Afrania brachyptera as a valid species without any comment. Lethierry & Severin (1893) and Kirkaldy (1909) catalogued Afrania wahlbergi Stål , considered as published in 1853, with Afrania brachyptera Schaum as its junior synonym, because attributed to Schaum (1862), not to Schaum (1853). Robertson (2009) listed ‘ Strachia wahlbergi Stål, 1853 ’ and ‘ Agonoscelis brachyptera Schaum, 1853 ’ as its junior synonym. With respect to the principle of priority, Afrania brachyptera ( Schaum, 1853) , stat. restit., must be considered the valid name for the species, with Afrania wahlbergi ( Stål, 1854) , syn. restit., being its junior synonym.

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 4. 1 — Leridella kenyensis Jeannel, 1913, ♀, Nairobi, Muguga, 15.2 mm (BMNH); 2 — Tripanda (T.) jurickorum Kment & Jindra, 2009, ♂, Gabon, Belinga, 9.0 mm (MNHN); 3 — Paralerida bolivari (Schouteden, 1904) (MRAC); 4 — P. niokana Linnavuori, 1982, ♂, holotype, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ituri, Nioka, 14 mm (MRAC). (Photo: P. Kment).