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species Elasmogaster africanus (Dallas, 1852)

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• Distribution:
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• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (11):
  • Dallas. 1852. List of the specimens of hemipterous insects in the collection of the British Museum II:379-380   >> Brachytes africanus    urn:lsid:Coreoidea.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:456514
  • Dohrn. 1859. Catalogus Hemipterorum 23   >> Note: Catalogued; South Africa >> Brachytes africanus
  • Stål. 1863[1862]. Öfversigt af Kongliga Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar 19:498   >> Note: Synonymy (=Elasmogaster brunnescens Stål, 1855) >> Elasmogaster africanus    urn:lsid:Coreoidea.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:456513
  • Stål. 1866[1865]. Hemiptera Africana 2:62-63   >> Note: Synonymy (=brunnescens); description; rec. South Africa >> Elasmogaster africanus
  • Walker, F. 1871. Catalogue of the Specimens of Hemiptera Heteroptera in the Collection of the British Museum IV:46   >> Note: Catalogued (=brunnescens); South Africa >> Brachytes africanus
  • Stål. 1873. K. Svens. Vet.-Akad. Hand. 11(2):56   >> Note: Catalogued (=brunnescens); loc. South Africa >> Elasmogaster africanus
  • Distant. 1893. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 6 12:123   >> Note: Compared with new species E. unicolor >> Elasmogaster africanus
  • Lethierry & Severin. 1894. Catalogue général des Hémiptères Tome II:29   >> Note: Catalogued (=brunnescens); South Africa (Caffraria) >> Elasmogaster africanus
  • Distant. 1902. Annals of the South African Museum 2(9):245   >> Note: Loc. South Africa >> Elasmogaster africanus
  • Schouteden. 1912. Revue Zool. afr. 1(3):423   >> Note: Compared with new species E. niamensis; synonymy (=brunnescens); specimen ex coll. Stål, ‘Caffraria’ in ISNB Brussels >> Elasmogaster africana
  • Schouteden. 1938. Annales du Musée Royal du Congo Belge. Zoologie 3 (2) 1:255 >> Note: Compared with new species E. massarti; paratype of E. brunnescens in MRAC Tervuren [? error for ISNB Brussels, noted as ‘Mus. Bruxelles’ by Schouteden, 1912c: 423] >> Elasmogaster africanus
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Africa, Southern Africa
  • Kind of type:  syntypes
  • Specimen category:  Male
  • Location of type:  BMNH London NH Mus.

• synonym brunnescens Stål, 1855

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