identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
EF3F363BFF84FFA853BBEBE9FE31FED1.text	EF3F363BFF84FFA853BBEBE9FE31FED1.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Chilocoris quadraticollis Linnavuori 1993	<div><p>Chilocoris quadraticollis was originally described from the Republic of the Congo by Linnavuori (1993), and since that time, no other specimens of this species were sampled and identified. In addition, its biology was completely unknown.</p><p>Browsing through the  Cydnidae material borrowed several years ago from the Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren (Belgium), two females of this species collected in the Democratic Republic of Congo (former Zaire) were found.</p><p>Ch. quadraticollis can be easily recognised among all Afrotropical species of the genus  Chilocoris Mayr, 1865 by its pronotum shape, i.e., its lateral margins have distinct insinuation at mid-length (Fig. 1).</p><p>Material examined:   one female: Dans nid de  Myrmicaria; Coll. Mus. Congo, Kivu: Butembo, terr.  Lubero 1740 m., R.P.M.J. Célis, XI-1955 ;   one female: Congo belge: Kivu, Kinyamahura ( Djomba), 1800 m., 23-viii-1934, G.F. de Witte: 551.</p><p>Remarks on biology: What was very important was that one female was sampled from an ant nest of a species representing the genus  Myrmicaria Saunders, 1842 ( Hymenoptera:  Formicidae:  Myrmicinae). However, our knowledge of burrower bugs associated with ants was very limited, as only two cydnid species representing the genus  Amnestus Dallas, 1851 ( Cydnidae: Amnestinae) were hitherto reported in association with ants in Brazil (Froeschner 1975). Therefore, it was impossible to state whether  Ch. quadraticollis habitually shared the nest of a species of ant and could be regarded as a myrmecophile (Kronauer &amp; Pierce 2011), or were only an occasional inhabitant of the anthill.</p><p>Distribution (Fig. 2): The species was known until now only from a single locality in the Republic of the Congo (Linnavuori 1993); its two additional localities were herein, for the first time, reported from the Democratic Republic of Congo.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/EF3F363BFF84FFA853BBEBE9FE31FED1	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Lis, Jerzy A.	Lis, Jerzy A. (2015): Chilocoris quadraticollis Linnavuori, 1993 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Cydnidae): first records from the Democratic Republic of Congo with first data on its biology. Heteroptera Poloniae - Acta Faunistica 9: 43-44
