Cryptacrus princeps Horváth, 1893

Kment, Petr & Rédei, Dávid, 2018, A revision of the types of Heteroptera species described by Géza Horváth based on specimens from collections of Ladislav Duda and Emil Holub, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 58 (1), pp. 275-295 : 285

Cryptacrus princeps Horváth, 1893

( Figs 41–43 )

Cryptacrus princeps Horváth, 1893: 256 (original description).Synonymized by LESTON (1954: 678).

Cryptacrus princeps : LETHIERRY & SEVERIN (1893): 264 (catalogue).

Cryptacrus comes var. princeps : SCHOUTEDEN (1903): 48 (downgraded to variety of C. comes , key to varieties), 50 (redescription, distribution); SCHOUTEDEN (1904a): 41 (catalogue); SCHOUTEDEN (1904b): 153 (list, distribution); KIRKALDY (1909b):290 (catalogue); SCHOUTEDEN (1909): 33 (distribution); SCHOUTEDEN (1910a): 403 (list, distribution); LEHMANN (1920): 142 (variability, distribution); SCHOUTEDEN (1929b): 59 (list, distribution); LESTON (1952a): 15 (variability); SCHOUTEDEN (1972): 94 (list, distribution); LINNAVUORI (1982a): 15 (host plant, distribution); GÖLLNER- SCHEIDING (2012): 101 (distribution).

Type locality. ‘Niam-Niam;communic.Dom.L. DUDA.’ The name Niam- Niam refers to homeland of Azande ethnic group (NE Democratic Republic of the Congo, S South Sudan, SE Central African Republic) ( ANONYMUS 2017). For more details, see explanation under Niamia angulosa .

Type material examined. SYNTYPE: 1 ♀ ( HNHM), ‘Africa / (Niam-Niam) [hw, pink label] // princeps [Horváth’s hw, underlined in red hw] / det. Horváth [p]’ (pinned through scutellum, both distiflagella and apex of right fore tarsus lacking) ( Figs 41–43 ).

Current status. Junior synonym of Cryptacrus comes comes ( Fabricius, 1803) . LESTON (1954: 679) effectively synonymized all of the named varieties of this species by the following statement: ‘ Cryptacrus comes […] has four extreme colour forms (see SCHOUTEDEN 1903 for details) but intermediates are also found so that there is little point in retaining varietal names […]’.

Distribution of Cryptacrus comes . Africa: Angola (LES- TON 1952a), Burundi ( SCHOUTEDEN 1972, no exact record), Cameroon ( DISTANT 1877; HAGLUND 1894; KARSCH 1894; SCHOUTEDEN 1903, 1972; LEHMANN 1920; LINNAVUORI 1982a; CZAJA 2007), Central African Republic ( SCHOUTEDEN 1903, LINNAVUORI 1982a), Democratic Republic of the Congo (DIS- TANT 1890, 1901; SCHOUTEDEN 1909, 1910a, 1911, 1929b, 1972; LESTON 1952a; CZAJA 2012, 2013 a,b, 2016), Equatorial Guinea ( SCHOUTEDEN 1904b), Ethiopia ( SCHOUTEDEN 1903, MANCINI 1956), Gabon ( SCHOUTEDEN 1903, 1972), Ghana ( REUTER 1882, SCHOUTEDEN 1903), Guinea ( FABRICIUS 1803, as Tetyra comes ; FAIRMAIRE & SIGNORET 1858; STÅL 1865, as Graptocoris comes, 1873; WALKER 1867; SCHOUTEDEN 1903), Ivory Coast ( SCHOUTEDEN 1963), Kenya ( SCHOUTEDEN 1903, JEANNEL 1913), Malawi ( DISTANT 1914), Mozambique ( DISTANT 1914), Namibia ( KARSCH 1892), Nigeria ( FAIRMAIRE & SIGNORET 1858; STÅL 1865, as Graptocoris comes; WAL- KER 1867; SCHOUTEDEN 1903, 1972), Republic of the Congo ( SCHOUTEDEN 1903, 1909; VILLIERS 1967a; GÖLLNER- SCHEI- DING 2012), Rwanda ( SCHOUTEDEN 1972, no exact record), Senegal ( SCHOUTEDEN 1903), Somalia ( SCHOUTEDEN 1903), South Africa ( DALLAS 1851, as Poecilocoris? pinguis; STÅL 1865, as Graptocoris pinguis; STÅL 1873, as Caffraria; WAL- KER 1867; DISTANT 1898, as C. pinguis; SCHOUTEDEN 1903; BERGROTH 1914; LESTON 1953), South Sudan (LINNAVUORI 1985), Tanzania (GERSTAECKER 1873; SCHOUTEDEN 1903, 1910b, 1972; JEANNEL 1913), Uganda ( SCHOUTEDEN 1903, 1972; DISTANT 1902, 1909, 1914; JEANNEL 1913; LESTON 1952b), Zimbabwe ( DISTANT 1914, LESTON 1954).

Remarks. This species was described based on an unspecified number of female(s) ( HORVÁTH 1893); a single female syntype is deposited in the HNHM.

Figures

Figs 38–49. Habitus and labels of type specimens. 38–40 – Niamia angulosa Horváth, 1893, ♀, syntype; 41–43 – Cryptacrus princeps Horváth, 1893 [= C. comes comes (Fabricius, 1803)], ♀, syntype; 44–45 – Polytodes ochraceus Horváth, 1893 [= Polytes tigrinus (Vollenhoven, 1868)],?sex, holotype; 46–49 – Dinidor vicarius Horváth, 1893 [= D. impicticollis Stål, 1870], ♀, holotype. Scale bars in mm. (Photo: 38–43, 46–49 – D. Rédei, 44–45 – Ch. Marshall)