Notes on Afrotropical Enicocephalidae and Reduviidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) with emphasis on vehicle-mounted net samples from Liberia, West Africa
Author
Krüger, Andreas
text
Zootaxa
2019
2019-10-22
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journal article
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Acanthaspis sulcipes
Signoret, 1858
(
Fig. 2A
)
Material examined
:
LIBERIA
:
Bong county
,
Bong
town,
6°48′N
10°21′W
,
30.vi.1989
, hand-collected, leg.
Rolf Garms
(
1 ♀
)
.
Distribution
: Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali,
Nigeria
, Sierra Leone.
Remark
:
Type
image under: http://www2.nrm.se/en/het_nrm/d/acanthaspis_dilutipes.html.
Villiers (1948)
keyed nine African species, but ignored another 20 species described mainly by Schouteden between
1906–1931
,
Jeannel (1917
,
1919
), and even by himself (e.g.
Villiers, 1944
). Six more species were described after 1948. Two of them,
A. alluaudi
Jeannel, 1919
and
A. vaneyeni
Schouteden, 1952
are imaged under: https://www. discoverlife.org/mp/20q?search=
Acanthaspis
&guide=
Reduviidae
&flags=col2:&res=640 (© C. Weirauch), and differ considerably from
A. sulcipes
. For all but eight species (from East and southern Africa) of the above mentioned 26 unkeyed taxa the original descriptions were studied.