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species Lethaeus africanus Dallas, 1852

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• Distribution:
  •  Kenya (Slater 1964 [L. simpsoni]); Nigeria (Slater 1964 [L. simpsoni]); Fr. Guinea; Ruanda; Sierra Leone; S. Africa (Slater 1964); Namibia (Deckert 2000)
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (16):
  • Dallas, W.S. 1852. List of the specimens of Hemipterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part. II. 2:369-592 >> Note: List. Hem. B. M. 2: 557-8 (O.D.) || (fig.-dv.) >> Lethaeus africanus    urn:lsid:Lygaeoidea.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:484782
  • Dohrn, F.A. 1859. Catalogus Hemipterorum 112 pp. >> Note: Cat. Hem. p. 33. >> Lethaeus africanus
  • Stal, C. 1865. Hemiptera Africana II. Stockholm: Norstedtiana. pp. 1-200   >> Note: Hem. Afr. 2: 174-5 || (des.; syn.) >> Lethaeus africanus
  • Walker, F. 1872. Catalogue of the specimens of Hemiptera Heteroptera in the collection of the British Museum. London: Part V.:151-152 >> Note: Cat. Hem. Het. B. M. 5: 75. >> Lethaeus africanus
  • Stal, C. 1874. svenska VetenskAkad. Handl 12(1):1-186   >> Note: Enum. Hem. 4: 165. >> Lethaeus africanus
  • Lethierry & G. Severin. 1894. General catalogue of the Hemiptera. Vol. II. Heteropteres. Brussels: F. Hayez, Imprimeur de l'Academie Royale de Belgique. II >> Note: Gen. Cat. Hem. 2: 223. >> Lethaeus africanus
  • Distant, W.L. 1904. Fauna of British India, including Ceylon & Burma Rhynchota. Vol. II. (Heteroptera). London: Taylor & Francis pp. 1-503 >> Note: Fn. Brit. Ind. Rhynch. 2: 87 || (names type sp. Lethaeus) >> Lethaeus africanus
  • Oshanin. 1912. Katalog der palaarktischen Hemipteren (Heteroptera, Homoptera-Auchenorhyncha & Psylloideae). Berlin: xvi + 187 pp. >> Note: Kat. Pal. Hem. p. 39 || (type) >> Lethaeus africanus
  • Hesse. 1925. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. 23:1-178 >> Note: Ann. S. Afr. Mus. 23: 83 || (type sp.) >> Lethaeus africanus
  • Villiers, A. 1954. Bull. Inst. franc. Afr. N. 16:913-6 >> Note: Bull. Inst. Fr. Afr. Noire 16: 915. >> Lethaeus africanus
  • Schouteden, H. 1957. Ann. Mus. Congo belge. 8(58):247-268 >> Note: Ann. Mus. Roy. Congo Belg. Sci. Zool. 8: 58: 250. >> Lethaeus africanus
  • Stichel, W. 1958. Illustrierte Bestimmungstabellin der Wanzen. II. Europae (Hemiptera-Heteroptera Europae) Vol. 4 >> Note: Ill. Bst. Eur. Wanz. II: 4: 11: 337 || (type sp.) >> Lethaeus africanus
  • Slater, J.A. 1964. A Catalogue of the Lygaeidae of the World. 825-826 >> Lethaeus africanus
  • Scudder, G.G.E. 1967. Bull. Brit. Mus. Entomol. 20:255 >> Lethaeus africanus
  • Slater, J.A. & J.E. O'Donnell. 1995. A Catalogue of the Lygaeidae of the world 98 >> Lethaeus africanus
  • Deckert. 2000. Cimbebasia Memoir 9:153 >> Note: [Namibia] >> Lethaeus africanus
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Africa, West Tropical Africa, Sierre Leone, Njala
  • Kind of type:  neotype
  • Specimen category:  female
  • Location of type:  NHMUK London

• synonym niger Dallas, 1852
• synonym simpsoni Bergroth, 1912

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