The Reduviidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) of Ipassa Reserve (Makokou, Gabon) Author Guilbert, Eric Author Chłond, Dominik text Zootaxa 2009 2157 34 42 journal article 10.5281/zenodo.275058 8bd83198-0ce8-410a-b3df-cd581e049fc3 1175-5326 275058 Reduviinae Latreille, 1807 Acanthapsis bilineolata (Palisot de Beauvois, 1805) Material examined: 4 specimens , Makokou, 15-IV / 12-V-1971 , light trap; 3 specimens , Makokou, 15-III / 21-V-1971 , 1 specimens , Ipassa, 5-IV-1971 , Mateu leg.; 1 specimen , Ipassa, 20-IV-1971 . 2 specimens , 10/ 15- X-1973 , Bernardi coll. Comments: This species is known from Gabon from Belinga and Libreville, and first recorded here from Ipassa Reserve. It is also known from Cameroon , Congo-Brazzaville , Democratic Republic of Congo , Guinea , Kenya , Nigeria , Bioko Island ( Equatorial Guinea ), Somalia . Cerilocus inermipes Stål, 1859 Material examined: 1 specimen , Makokou, 30-IV-1971 , Light trap, MNHN . Comments: This species is recorded from Gabon and Ipassa Reserve for the first time. It is known from Cameroon , Congo-Brazzaville , Democratic Republic of Congo , Equatorial Guinea , Guinea , and Ivory Coast . Khafra elegans (Breddin, 1903) Material examined: 1 specimen , Makokou, IV/ V-1963 , Bernardi coll.; 1 specimen Makokou, 16-V-1971 , MNHN ; 1 specimen , Ipassa 2-IV-1973 , MNHN . Comments: This species is recorded from Gabon and Ipassa Reserve for the first time. It is also known from Bioko Island, Congo-Brazzaville , Democratic Republic of Congo , Equatorial Guinea , Ghana , Guinea , and Ivory Coast . Platymicrus capitainei Villiers, 1966 Material examined: 3 specimens , Makokou, Ipassa, 5-IV , 10-V-1971 , Mateu coll., MNHN . Comments: This species was only known from the holotype from Congo-Brazzaville . It is recorded from Gabon and Ipassa Reserve here for the first time. Plynoides breddini (Valera, 1904) Material examined: 2 specimens , Makokou, 28-IV , 31-V-1971 , light trap, MNHN . Comments: This species is known from Angola , Cameroon , Democratic Republic of Congo , Ghana , Guinea , Ivory Coast , and Senegal . It is recorded here from Gabon and Ipassa Reserve for the first time. Psytalla horrida (Stål, 1866) Material examined: 3 specimens Makokou, 30-IV-1971 , 15, 18-V-1971 , ligth trap; 2 specimens , Ipassa, 2- IV-1973 , Bernardi coll., MNHN . Comments: This species is already known from Gabon (Belinga) and also from Ipassa ( 23-III-1963 , Coiffait coll.) ( Villiers 1967 ). It is known also from Cameroon , Democratic Republic of Congo , Guinea , Ivory Coast , Kenya , Malawi , Mozambique , Nigeria , Republic of Central Africa, and widespread in tropical Africa ( Villiers 1968 ). Recicolus poecilus (Breddin, 1903) Material examined: 1 specimen , Ipassa, 31-VII-1971 , Mateu coll., MNHN . Comments: This species, already known from Congo-Brazzaville , Democratic Republic of Congo , and Cameroon , is recorded here for the first time from Gabon and Ipassa Reserve. Sphedanovarus camerunensis Beddin, 1903 Material examined: 3 specimens , Ipassa Makokou, 10-V , 3-IV , 5-IV-1971 , Mateu coll., 1 specimen , Makokou, 15-IV-1971 , light trap, MNHN . Comments: This species is already known from Gabon (Belinga, Bengoué), and now recorded here from Ipassa Reserve for the first time. It is also known from Bioko Island, Bissau-Guinea , Cameroon , Equatorial Guinea , Republic of Central Africa, Congo-Brazzaville , Democratic Republic of Congo , Guinea , Ivory Coast , Kenya , Senegal , and “ German Oriental Africa” (as labeled). Tetroxia escalerae (Varela, 1903) Material examined: 1 specimen , Ipassa, Makokou, 30-V-1971 , light trap, Mateu coll., MNHN . Comments: Already known from Cameroon , Congo-Brazzaville , Democratic Republic of Congo , Equatorial Guinea , and Uganda , this species is recorded here from Gabon and Ipassa Reserve for the first time. Tetroxia spinifera (Palisot de Beauvois, 1805) Material examined: 3 specimens , Makokou, 28-IV , 14-V , 31-VII-1971 , light trap; 1 specimen , 10/ 15-X- 1967 , Bernardi coll., MNHN . Comments: This species is recorded from Gabon and Ipassa Reserve for the first time. It is also known from Benin , Bioko Island, Cameroon , Congo-Brazzaville , Democratic Republic of Congo , Equatorial Guinea , Guinea , Nigeria , Republic of Chad , and Togo .