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Ochterus brunneus Hungerford 1927

Description

Ochterus brunneus Hungerford, 1927

Ochterus brunneus Hungerford, 1927: 188 –189 (description, differential diagnosis). SYNTYPES: 2, Bolivia: ‘Huachi Rio Beni’ (USNM).

Ochterus brunneus: SCHELL (1943a): 32, 35 (key to species, illustration), SCHELL (1943b): 41 (original description repeated, differential diagnosis); DRAKE (1952): 74 (checklist); HECKMAN (2011): 461 (key to species, illustration).

(1 1 ♀ MMBC, 1 NMPC); NE,Ankarafantsika N.P., 22.–24.iv.2011, ca. 100 m a.s.l., sweeping close to main entrance, 1, P. Baňař lgt., P. Kment det. (MMBC). MOZAMBIQUE: CW, 30 km NE Guro, 17°14′S 33°27′E, 620 m a.s.l., 11.xii.2005, 1 1 ♀, J. Halada lgt., P. Kment det. (MMBC). SOUTH SUDAN: UPPER NILE: near Malakal, 5.–20.i. 1963, 1 1 ♀, R. E. Linnavuori lgt., P. Kment det. (ACPI). SUDAN: BLUE NILE: Blue Nile Prov., Ed Damazin [= Ad-Damazin], 2.xii.1967, 1 5 ♀♀ (Fig. 19), P. Štys lgt. (1169), P. Kment det. (1 4 ♀♀ MMBC, 1 ♀ NMPC). SENNAR: Blue Nile prov., Dinder Game Reserve, Galegu, 28.ii.1967, 4 4 ♀♀, P. Štys lgt. (653), P. Kment det. (3 3 ♀♀ MMBC, 1 1 ♀ NMPC); same locality, 4.iii.1967, 4 6 ♀♀, P. Štys lgt. (686), P. Štys det. as O. marginatus caffer, P. Kment revid. (3 5 ♀♀ MMBC, 1 1 ♀ NMPC).

Distribution. Afrotropical Region: Benin (KORMILEV 1973); Burkina Faso (LINNAVUORI 1981); Cameroon (POISSON 1948); Cape Verde Islands: Santiago Island (MANCINI 1939a); Central African Republic (LINNAVUORI 1981); Chad (LINNAVUORI 1981); Democratic Republic of the Congo (POISSON 1949, 1968b; POISSON & SALLIER DUPIN 1969); Ethiopia (DE CARLINI 1895, MANCINI 1956); Gambia (NIESER & CHEN 1992); Guinea (POISSON 1954, BERTRAND 1962); Ivory Coast (POISSON 1968a); Kenya (JACZEWSKI 1934); Madagascar (POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 2008); Mozambique (new record); Nigeria (JACZEWSKI 1934, LINNAVUORI 1981); Republic of the Congo (BERTRAND 1962); São Tomé and Príncipe: Príncipe Island (MANCINI 1939a); Senegal (NIESER & CHEN 1992); Sierra Leone (JACZEWSKI 1934); Somalia (MANCINI 1939a,b; LINNAVUORI 1982); South Africa (STÅL 1855, JACZEWSKI 1934, KORMILEV 1973); South Sudan (LINNAVUORI 1971, 1980); Sudan (new record); Tanzania (JACZEWSKI 1934).

Notes

Published as part of Kment, Petr, Carapezza, Attilio & Jindra, Zdeněk, 2020, Taxonomic catalogue of the family Ochteridae with description of Ochterus papaceki sp. nov. from Socotra Island and Tanzania (Hemiptera: Heteroptera), pp. 23-64 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 60 (1) on pages 36-37, DOI: 10.37520/aemnp.2020.003, http://zenodo.org/record/3879659

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Ochteridae
Genus
Ochterus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hemiptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Hungerford
Species
brunneus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Ochterus brunneus Hungerford, 1927 sec. Kment, Carapezza & Jindra, 2020

References

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