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species Pephricus fragilis Distant, 1901

• Distribution:
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• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (8):
  • Distant. 1901. Entomologist 34(454):89   >> Note: Original description; figure of adult habitus d.v., compared with P. pellicula; STS: male, female, West Africa, Nigeria, leg. G. Migeod, Abyssinia; BMNH London >> Pephricus fragilis    urn:lsid:Coreoidea.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:454631
  • Bergroth. 1913. Mémoires de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 22:155   >> Note: Catalogued; Abyssinia, West Africa >> Pephricus fragilis
  • Risbec. 1950. Travaux du Laboratoire d’Entomologie du Secteur Soudanais de Recherches Agronomiques 1:311 >> Note: On leaves of Ipomoea batatas; rec. Senegal >> Pephriscus fragilis    urn:lsid:Coreoidea.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:454632
  • Risbec. 1950. Travaux du Laboratoire d’Entomologie du Secteur Soudanais de Recherches Agronomiques 1:311, 312 >> Note: Figure of adult habitus d.v. [Fig. 142: 1195a]; on leaves of Ipomoea batatas [apparently same record as above; both covered by general note that the species listed caused no apparent damage] >> Phyllomorpha fragilis    urn:lsid:Coreoidea.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:454633
  • Forsyth. 1966. Agricultural insects of Ghana 69 >> Note: Rec. Ghana; on Poaceae >> Pephricus fragilis
  • Linnavuori. 1978. Acta Zool.Fenn. 153:34 >> Note: Loc. Sudan >> Pephricus fragilis
  • Medler. 1980. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute Supplement 30:111 >> Note: Listed; Nigeria >> Pephricus fragilis
  • Linnavuori. 1980. Act. Ent. Fenn. 36:30 >> Note: In loc. table Sudan >> Pephricus fragilis
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Africa, West Tropical Africa, Nigeria, N. Nigeria
  • Kind of type:  syntypes
  • Specimen category:  Female
  • Location of type:  BMNH London NH Mus.

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