Chrysomantis girardi Gillon & Roy, 1968

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Chrysomantis girardi Gillon & Roy, 1968

Figs. 144–146 , 151

Chrysomantis girardi Gillon & Roy, 1968: 1132–1135 , Figs. 52–55 .

Type locality. Lamto , Ivory Coast .

Distribution. Ivory Coast ( Gillon & Roy 1968; Roy 2013a).

Records. CSC: ♁, new station, 03.IV.–12.V.2017, M. Pohl leg.

Remarks. Only two males are known in the literature, the holotype from Lamto and a male from Bouaké ( Roy 2013b). Chrysomantis girardi is very similar to C. speciosa Giglio-Tos, 1915 from the West and Central African forest block, but contrary to the latter seems to prefer Guinea savanna. Given the scarcity of captures and the astonishing variability of C. speciosa (see Roy 2013b), it cannot be excluded that C. girardi is merely a savanna morph of the latter.

Figures

FIGURES 144–146. Chrysomantis girardi Gillon & Roy, 1968. Male. 144. Dorsal view. 145. Ventral view. 146. Anterior view of head.

FIGURES 150–151. Acromantinae males, live aspects. 150. Oxypiloidea (C.) occidentalis. 151. Chrysomantis girardi.

FIGURES 51–52. Tarachodes (B.) afzelii, live aspects. 51. Dorsal view of female, rare barred and striped morphotype (see Edmunds 1976). 52. Anterior view of grooming individual.

FIGURES 53–57. Paragalepsus toganus (Giglio-Tos, 1911). 53–54. Female from Ghana. 55–57. Male. 53, 55. Dorsal view. 54, 56–57. Ventral view. 57. Genitalia.