Notes on Afrotropical Enicocephalidae and Reduviidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) with emphasis on vehicle-mounted net samples from Liberia, West Africa
Author
Krüger, Andreas
text
Zootaxa
2019
2019-10-22
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journal article
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Embolorrhinus cornifrons
(Bergroth & Schouteden, 1905)
(
Figs. 1A, B
)
Material examined
:
LIBERIA
:
Bong county
,
Bong
mine tailings pond area,
Dam
16 spillway,
6°47′10″N
10°17′25″W
,
145 m
,
15.vi.1989
, at light, leg.
Rolf Garms
(
2 ♀♀
)
.
Distribution
:
Liberia
; West and Central Africa.
Henschiella
sp.
(
Fig. 1C
)
Material examined
:
LIBERIA
:
Bong county
, trips to/from Liberia Research Unit (
Bong
Mine)
—Dam 12—Fahn- Gbolo—Menla—Weadea bridge,
4.iv.–7.vi.1989
, vehicle-mounted net, leg. Rolf Garms (
20 ♂♂
,
4 ♀♀
).
Remark
: Lacking appropriate reference specimens and facing rather inadequate descriptions a species designation was difficult. However, with reference to
Villiers (1969)
, this is certainly a new record for
Liberia
, as the only previous West/Central African records,
H. seguyi
(Villiers, 1955)
and
H. alluaudi
(
Jeannel, 1919
)
, were from Mauretania and Bioko, respectively. The Liberian specimens differ from the description of
H. seguyi
by a longer antennal segment III and by rather dark hemelytra, the latter of which also distinguish them from
H. sudanica
Villiers, 1968
, while the well developed posterior lobe of pronotum disagrees with
H. congoensis
Štys, 1968
. The Liberian specimens show slight sexual dimorphisms regarding body size, width of basal labium and width of posterior lobe of pronotum.