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Pseudovostox africanus subsp. meridionalis Brindle 1970

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Description

Pseudovostox africanus meridionalis Brindle, 1970 e: 265.

Type material

1 ♀, paratype, F3233.1591, dried, mounted on card.

Locality label

Coll. Mus. Congo / Tanganika: Musosa, 980m. / (à la lumiere) XI- 1953 / H. Bomans.

Taxonomy

Spongiphoridae, Geracinae, Pseudovostox africanus meridionalis Brindle, 1970.

Remarks

1. Hopkins et al. (2014) refer to this species as ‘ africana’. Brindle named the subspecies P. africanus meridionalis in the original description and subsequently (Brindle 1973 f: 136). Steinmann (1989 c: 424) has P. africanus meridionalis.

2. Additional information on the index card: Tanzania, Musosa.

Notes

Published as part of Miles, Claire, 2015, The Earwig Collection (Dermaptera) of the Manchester Museum, UK, with a complete type catalogue, pp. 1-138 in European Journal of Taxonomy 141 on page 23, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2015.141, http://zenodo.org/record/3827836

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References

  • Brindle A. 1970 e. New African species of the genus Pseudovostox Borelli (Dermaptera Labiidae). Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines 81 (3 - 4): 255 - 270.
  • Hopkins H., Maehr M. D., Haas F. & Deem L. S. 2014. Dermaptera Species File. Version 5.0 / 5.0. Available from http: // Dermaptera. SpeciesFile. org [accessed 15 Dec. 2014]
  • Brindle A. 1973 f. The Dermaptera of Africa. Part I. Annales du Musee royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Zoologie (8) 205: 1 - 335.
  • Steinmann H. 1989 c. World Catalogue of Dermaptera. Series Entomologica vol. 43. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, the Netherlands.