Harpactor (Diphymus) dudae 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 : 282

Harpactor (Diphymus) dudae Horváth, 1893

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Harpactor (Diphymus) dudae Horváth, 1893: 264 (original description). Harpactor Dudae : LETHIERRY & SEVERIN (1896): 159 (catalogue). Rhinocoris katangensis var. disparilis Schouteden, 1929a: 259 (descrip-

tion, distribution). Synonymized by SCHOUTEDEN (1932: 172). Rhinocoris Dudae: SCHOUTEDEN (1932): 172 (species list, new synonymy). Harpactor dudae : WU (1935): 468 (catalogue, distribution in China). Rhynocoris dudae : MALDONADO CAPRILES (1990): 278 (catalogue).

Type locality. ‘Territorium fluvii Gazellarum; communic.Dom. L.DUDA’ [= South Sudan: environs of Bahr el-Ghazal River, the main western tributary of the (White) Nile].

Type material examined. SYNTYPE: 1 ( HNHM), ‘978 / 16. [hw, with p frame and p horizontal line across middle] // Gazellen- / fluss. [hw, yellow label] // Harpactor / Dudae Horv.[Horváth’s hw]’ (pinned through scutellum, flagella of both antennae, left hind tarsus and right hind leg lacking, right fore tibia broken subapically) ( Figs 16–18 ).

Current status. Rhynocoris dudae ( Horváth, 1893) (MAL- DONADO CAPRILES 1990).

Distribution. Democratic Republic of the Congo (SCHOU- TEDEN 1929a, as R. katangensis var. disparilis ; 1932), South Sudan ( HORVÁTH 1893). The distribution in China as listed by WU (1935) is certainly erroneous.

Remarks. This species was described based on an unspecified number of males; a single male syntype is found in the HNHM.

Rhinocoris katangensis Schouteden, 1929 , and its var. disparilis Schouteden, 1929 , were both described based on specimens from Elisabethville (now Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo) ( SCHOUTEDEN 1929a). Rhinocoris katangensis var. disparilis was subsequently synonymized with Rh. dudae by SCHOUTEDEN (1932: 172). MALDONADO CAPRILES (1990: 278) apparently considered this act as an implicit synonymization of Rh. katangensis with Rh. dudae , and accordingly listed both Rh. katangensis and its var. disparilis as junior synonyms of Rh. dudae . This was, however, erroneous, because SCHOUTEDEN (1932: 174) explicitly listed Rh. katangensis as a valid specied different from Rh. dudae . The status of both Rh. katangensis and Rh. katangensis var. disparilis should be reconsidered based on their respective type materials. Rhynocoris katangensis must be treated as valid species.

Figures

Figs 5–22. Habitus and labels of type specimens. 5–7 – Coranopsis vittata Horváth, 1893, ♀, syntype; 8–11 – Cosmolestes fulvus Horváth, 1893, ♀, holotype; 12–15 – Edocla albipennis Horváth, 1893,, holotype; 16–18 – Harpactor dudae Horváth, 1893 [= Rhynocoris dudae],, syntype; 19–22 – Oncocephalus angustatus Horváth, 1893, ♀, syntype. Scale bars in mm. (Photo: D. Rédei).