Isometopus (Jehania) slateri (Akingbohungbe)
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4378.4.3 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5980033 |
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Isometopus (Jehania) slateri (Akingbohungbe) View in CoL
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Magnocellus slateri Akingbohungbe, 1983: 256 View in CoL (Type by original description).
Isometopus (Jehania) slateri (Akingbohungbe) View in CoL ; Akingbohungbe, 1996: 75 (New combination).
To the descriptions of the holo- and paratype males from Ghana ( Akingbohungbe , 1983) may be added the following observations.
Male. Length 2.33 mm (2.25–2.4) (figure 4 A). Maximum width across hemelytra 1.33 (1.3–1.38). Head (figures 4B–D) in front 1.49x (1.39–1.52) as broad as high; width 0.64 (0.62–0.66), height 0.43 (0.42–0.46), dorsal length 0.15 (0.14–0.16). Second antennal segment 0.45 (0.42–0.5). Rostrum exceeding hind coxae towards first sternite. Frons punctate with irregular transverse impressions. Lateral pronotal margins with narrow carina, most of which is concolorous with pronotal disk.
Genitalia (figures 4E–F): right paramere similar to holotype; left paramere distinctly bent beyond median knob; everted endosoma relatively short, minutely echinulated.
Material examined. 6♂, Liberia: Bong county, trips to/from: LRU—Airfield—Dam 12— Fahn Gbolo , approximately N06°47’ W10°20’, 27.iii–9.vi 1989 (leg. Garms). GoogleMaps
Remarks. Regardless of the deviation of several characters from the original description of I. slateri (Akingbohungbe, 1983) the present specimens are treated as con-specific, though geographical variants. The original description was based on only two males, but in a later amendment (Akingbohungbe, 1996), after describing a female series, it was stated that “this is a considerably variable species…”.
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Isometopus (Jehania) slateri (Akingbohungbe)
Krüger, Andreas 2018 |
Magnocellus slateri
Akingbohungbe 1983: 256 |