Semi-aquatic Epilamprinae cockroaches (Blattodea: Blaberidae) in Cameroon: towards a revision of continental African species of Rhabdoblatta Kirby, 1903 and Africalolampra Roth, 1995
Author
Mbia, Donald-L’or Nyame
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Laboratory of Hydrobiology and Environment, Faculty of Science, P. O Box 812, Yaounde, Cameroon.
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Author
Ngon, Eric Belmond Biram à
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Laboratory of Hydrobiology and Environment, Faculty of Science, P. O Box 812, Yaounde, Cameroon. & Institute of Geological and Mining Research, P. O Box 4110, Yaounde, Cameroon.
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Author
Legendre, Frédéric
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Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB), Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, EPHE, Université des Antilles, CP 50, 57 rue Cuvier, 75005 Paris, France.
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Author
Menbohan, Samuel Foto
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Laboratory of Hydrobiology and Environment, Faculty of Science, P. O Box 812, Yaounde, Cameroon.
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European Journal of Taxonomy
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2024-07-26
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https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/2615/11981
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Key for males in the genus
Africalolampra
Roth, 1995
1. Overall length, from the vertex to the tip of the abdomen, smaller than
20 mm
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– Overall length, from the vertex to the tip of the abdomen, larger than
20 mm
................................ 3
2. Tegmina and abdominal sternites with several brown maculae, pronotum with uneven dots and maculae ............................................................................
A. camerunensis
(
Borg, 1902
)
comb. nov.
– Tegmina and abdominal sternites mostly unicolored, pronotum with rather uniform pattern of dots ......................................................................................................
A. erubescens
(
Gerstaecker, 1883
)
3. Face, frons and vertex speckled with dark dots and blotches, tergal specialization fleshy, nonsetose and white ......................................................................................................
A. erhmanni
Roth, 1995
– Face, frons and vertex without conspicuous black dots, tergal specialization as a pit with two transverse fold-like elevations that meet mesally ....................
A. stipata
(
Walker, 1868
)
comb. nov.