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Bambara frosti

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Description

Bambara frosti (Dybas, 1966) (Fig. 4I)

Remarks: The most widespread and commonest species of this pantropical genus. Parthenogenetic. Spermatheca (Fig. 4I).

Material examined

1♀, UGANDA: Makerere University College Farm, 12 miles N. Kampala, 0°28′N, 32°37′E, xii.1964 –v.65, leg. W.C. Block, B.M. 1978-472 (BMNH).

Notes

Published as part of Darby, Michael, 2019, Studies of Ptiliidae (Coleoptera) in the Spirit Collection of the Natural History Museum, London, 6: New species and records collected by W. C. Block in Kenya and Uganda, 1964 - 1965, pp. 239-257 in Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 155 on page 244, DOI: 10.31184/M00138908.1554.3999, http://zenodo.org/record/3653780

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
BMNH
Family
Ptiliidae
Genus
Bambara
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Coleoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Dybas
Species
frosti
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Bambara frosti (Dybas, 1966) sec. Darby, 2019

References

  • Dybas, H. S. 1966. Evidence for parthenogenesis in the Featherwing Beetles, with a taxonomic review of a new genus and eight new species (Coleoptera: Ptiliidae). Fieldiana, Zoology 51: 11 - 52.