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Cantao africanus Horvath 1893

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Cantao africanus Horváth, 1893

Cantao africanus Horváth, 1893: 256 (original description).

Cantao Africanus: LETHIERRY & SEVERIN (1893): 263 (catalogue).

Cantao africanus: SCHOUTEDEN (1903): 28 (repeated original description); SCHOUTEDEN (1906): 137 (comparison with C. pulcher sp. nov.); SCHOUTEDEN (1909): 31 (list); MCDONALD (1988):289 (nomen dubium, comment on possible mislabelling and synonymy); TSAI et al. (2011): 100 (nomen dubium).

Cantao (Cantao) africanus: SCHOUTEDEN (1904a):18 (catalogue, suspected mislabelling); KIRKALDY (1909b): 307 (catalogue).

Type locality. ‘ Congo, communic. Dom. L. DUDA.’ (in error?). The locality refers to the region of the Congo River, currently covering the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of the Congo and the province of Cabinda, Angola.

Type material. SYNTYPE (S): Lost (SCHOUTEDEN 1903).

Current status. Nomen dubium (cf. TSAI et al. 2011).

Distribution. ‘Congo’ (HORVÁTH 1893) (in error?).

Remarks. This species was described based on an unspecified number of male(s) (HORVÁTH 1893). SCHOUTEDEN (1903: 28) claimed that the type material was lost. We also failed to locate any fitting specimen in either HNHM or NMPC.

Cantao Amyot & Serville, 1843, contains only four species other than C. africanus, three of them distributed in Indomalaya (extending to marginal areas of the Palaearctics), the fourth one in the Australian Region (TSAI et al. 2011). It is impossible to ascertain the identity of C. africanus from the original description. Since there are records of the common Indomalayan species C. ocellatus (Thunberg, 1784) from Africa, C. africanus is possibly a junior synonym of the latter species (cf. MCDONALD 1988). However, HORVÁTH (1893) explicitly mentioned that its genital capsule lacks the median process characteristic of C. ocellatus, therefore it is not possible to make a conclusive decision, and accordingly, in agreement with MCDONALD (1988), we consider it as a species of unknown identity. It is also possible that the type material was mislabelled and it did not originate from Africa.

Notes

Published as part of Kment, Petr & Rédei, Dávid, 2018, A revision of the types of Heteroptera species described by Géza Horváth based on specimens from collections of Ladislav Duda and Emil Holub, pp. 275-295 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 58 (1) on page 285, DOI: 10.2478/aemnp-2018-0025, http://zenodo.org/record/3699290

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Biodiversity

Family
Scutelleridae
Genus
Cantao
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hemiptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Horvath
Species
africanus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Cantao africanus 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.
  • SCHOUTEDEN H. 1903: Faune entomologique de l'Afrique tropicale. Rhynchota AEthiopica. I. Scutellerinae et Graphosomatinae. Annales du Musee du Congo, Zoologie, Serie III 1 (1): 1 - 131 + pls. I-II.
  • SCHOUTEDEN H. 1906: Pentatomides nouveaux ou peu connus de la faune Indo-Australienne. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique 50: 137 - 144.
  • 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.
  • MCDONALD F. J. D. 1988: A revision of Cantao Amyot and Serville (Hemiptera: Scutelleridae). Oriental Insects 22: 287 - 299.
  • TSAI J. - F., REDEI D., YEH G. - F. & YANG M. - M. 2011: Jewel bugs of Taiwan (Heteroptera: Scutelleridae). National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, 309 pp.
  • SCHOUTEDEN H. 1904 a: Heteroptera. Fam. Pentatomidae. Subfam. Scutellerinae. In: WYTSMAN P. (ed.): Genera Insectorum. 24 me Fascicule. V. Verteneuil & L. Desmet, Bruxelles, 98 pp. + 5 pls.
  • KIRKALDY G. W. 1909 b: Catalogue of the Hemiptera (Heteroptera) with biological and anatomical references, lists of foodplants and parasites, etc. Prefaced by a discussion on nomenclature and an analytical table of families. Vol. I: Cimicidae. Felix L. Dames, Berlin, xl + 392 pp.