Naucoris Geoffroy, 1762

Mbogho, Aaron Y. & Sites, Robert W., 2013, Naucoridae Leach, 1815 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) of Tanzania, African Invertebrates 54 (2), pp. 513-513 : 529-530

Genus Naucoris Geoffroy, 1762

This widespread genus (see discussion of the genus Aneurocoris ) is in need of revision and no literature is available to aid in the identification of the African species other than mostly very old, cursory original descriptions, a few scattered records (e.g., Poisson 1967), and a comparative treatment of three species from Sudan ( Linnavuori 1971).

Seven species of Naucoris are known from mainland Africa and two others are endemic to Madagascar. Of the seven mainland species, two from southern Africa that might also occur in Tanzania are known in the literature from only their original descriptions of over 150 years ago, each of which is fewer than twenty words in length and of limited value for identification: Naucoris fuscipennis Schaum from Mozambique and Naucoris planus Germar from South Africa.