Niamia angulosa Horvath 1893
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Niamia angulosa Horváth, 1893
(Figs 38–40)
Niamia angulosa Horváth, 1893: 254 (original description).
Niamia angulosa: LETHIERRY & SEVERIN (1893): 261 (catalogue); KIRKAL- DY (1909b): 320 (catalogue).
Plataspis (Niamia) angulosa: HAGLUND (1894): 388–389 (new combination, distribution).
Libyaspis (Niamia) angulosa: SCHOUTEDEN (1909): 16, pl. I: Fig. 7 (variability, new combination).
Niamia angulosa: SCHOUTEDEN (1918): 19 (new combination, distribution); VILLIERS (1952b): 308 (distribution); JESSOP (1983): 35 (habitus drawing), 45–46 (generic diagnosis, distribution).
Type locality. ‘Niam-Niam; communic. Dom. L. DUDA’. The name Niam- Niam (or Nyam-Nyam) was frequently used by foreigners to refer to the Azande in the 18th and early 19th century.The Azande (plural of ‘Zande’ in the Zande language) are an ethnic group of North Central Africa.They live primarily in the northeastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Orientale Province, specifically along the Uele River; Isiro, Dungu, Kisangani and Dorima), in south-central and southwestern part of South Sudan (Central and Western Equatoria States,Yei, Maridi,Yambio and Tombura), and in southeastern Central African Republic (the districts of Rafaï, Bangasu and Obo) (ANONYMUS 2017).
Type material examined. SYNTYPE: 1 ♀ (HNHM), ‘Africa / Niam-Niam) [hw, pink label] // angulosa [Horváth’s hw, underlined in red hw] / det. Horváth [p]’ (pinned through scutellum, intact, wings abducted) (Figs 38–40).
Current status. Valid species; type species of the genus Niamia Horváth, 1893, by monotypy (cf. HORVÁTH 1893, JESSOP 1983).
Distribution. Cameroon (HAGLUND 1894); Democratic Republic of the Congo (SCHOUTEDEN 1918); Guinea (VILLIERS 1952b); Nigeria (JESSOP 1983, no exact record); Republic of the Congo (JESSOP 1983, no exact record); Uganda (JESSOP 1983, no exact record).
Remarks. This species was described based on an unspecified number of female(s) (HORVÁTH 1893); a single female syntype is deposited in the HNHM.
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Genus
- Niamia
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Hemiptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Horvath
- Species
- angulosa
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Niamia angulosa Horvath, 1893 sec. Kment & Rédei, 2018
References
- HORVATH G. 1893: Hemiptera nova africana. Termeszetrajzi Fuzetek 15 (4) [1892]: 254 - 267.
- LETHIERRY L. & SEVERIN G. 1893: Catalogue general des Hemipteres. Tome I. Heteropteres. Pentatomidae. Musee royal d'histoire naturelle de Belgique, Bruxelles, 286 pp.
- HAGLUND C. J. E. 1894: Beitrage zur Kenntniss der Insektenfauna von Kamerun. 4. Verzeichniss der von Yngve Sjostedt im nordwestlichen Kamerungebiete eingesammelten Hemipteren. Ofversigt af Kongliga Vetenskaps-Akademiens Forhandlingar 51 (8): 387 - 408.
- SCHOUTEDEN H. 1909: Catalogues raisonnes de la faune entomologique du Congo. I. Hemipteres-Heteropteres, Fam. Pentatomidae. Annales du Musee du Congo Belge, Zoologie, Serie III, Section II 1 (1): 1 - 85 + pls. I-II.
- SCHOUTEDEN H. 1918: Les Coptosomiens du Congo Belge. Revue Zoologique Africaine 6: 10 - 38.
- VILLIERS A. 1952 b: XIV. - Hemipteres Heteropteres terrestres. Pp. 289 - 309. In: La reserve naturelle integrale du Mt. Nimba. Fascicule 1. Memoires de Institut Francais d'Afrique Noire 19: 1 - 334 + pls. 1 - 3.
- ANONYMUS 2017: Zande people. Wikipedia. https: // en. wikipedia. org / wiki / Zande _ people (accessed May 15, 2018).
- STAL C. 1855: Hemiptera fran Kafferlandet. [Hemiptera from Caffraria]. Ofversigt af Kongliga Vetenskaps-Akademiens Forhandlingar 12: 27 - 47 (in Swedish and Latin).