A revision of the types of Heteroptera species described by Géza Horváth based on specimens from collections of Ladislav Duda and Emil Holub
Author
Kment, Petr
Author
Rédei, Dávid
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Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae
2018
2018-08-01
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275
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journal article
10.2478/aemnp-2018-0025
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Harpactor
(
Diphymus
)
dudae
Horváth, 1893
(
Figs 16–18
)
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.