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species Dicranocephalus caffer (Dallas, 1852)

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• Distribution:
  •  Botswana, Cameroun, Ethiopia, Kenya, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, North Sudan, Senegal, South Africa, Uganda, Yemen (?).
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (24):
  • Dallas. 1852. List of the specimens of hemipterous insects in the collection of the British Museum II:482   >> Note: STS: male, female, South Africa, presented by Dr. Andrew Smith; BMNH London. >> Stenocephalus caffer    urn:lsid:Coreoidea.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:452138
  • Stål. 1858. Öfvers.K.VetenskAkad.Förh.Stockh 15:310   >> Note: Loc. Botswana (Lake N’Gami). >> Stenocephalus caffer
  • Dohrn. 1859. Catalogus Hemipterorum 29   >> Note: Catalogued, southern Africa. >> Stenocephalus caffer
  • Stål. 1860[1859]. Öfvers.K.VetenskAkad.Förh.Stockh 16:468   >> Note: Compared with new species S. lautipes. >> Stenocephalus caffer
  • Stål. 1866. Hemiptera Africana 4:259   >> Note: Listed Africa. >> Stenocephalus caffer
  • Walker, F. 1871. Catalogue of the Specimens of Hemiptera Heteroptera in the Collection of the British Museum IV:171   >> Note: Catalogued, South Africa. >> Stenocephalus caffer
  • Stål. 1873. K. Svens. Vet.-Akad. Hand. 11(2):85   >> Note: Catalogued, loc. Botswana, compared with new species S. punctipes. >> Stenocephalus (Dichromerus) caffer
  • Lethierry & Severin. 1894. Catalogue général des Hémiptères Tome II:97   >> Note: Catalogued, loc. Botswana. >> Stenocephalus caffer
  • Schumacher. 1913. In Schultze. Zoologische und anthropologische Ergebnisse einer Forschungsreise im westlichen und zentralen Südafrika ausgeführt in den Jahren 1903-1905 mit Unterstützung der Kgl. Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. Funfter Band. Systematik, Tiergeographie und Anthropologie. Denkschriften der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft zu Jena 17(2):64 >> Note: Loc. Namibia. >> Stenocephalus caffer
  • Hesse. 1925. Annals of the South African Museum 23(1):56   >> Note: Loc. Namibia. >> Stenocephalus caffer
  • Blöte. 1935. Zoölogische Mededeelingen 18:182   >> Note: Loc. ‘E. Africa, Luitpold Range’ which is not in E Africa but in Cameroun. >> Stenocephalus caffer
  • Izzard. 1960. In Hanström, Brinck & Rudebeck. South African Animal Life. Results of the Lund University Expedition in 1950-1951. Stockholm. 482 >> Note: Locs South Africa, loc. Namibia, rec. Uganda, loc. Kenya. >> Stenocephalus caffer
  • Lansbury. 1965. Ent. Mon. Mag. 101:63, 64 >> Note: In key, in check list (=Stenocephalus adspersus Jakovlev, 1901). >> Dicranocephalus caffer    urn:lsid:Coreoidea.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:452137
  • Lansbury. 1966. Ent. Mon. Mag. 101(1965):79-80 >> Note: Synonymy (=adspersus), description, locs South Africa, loc. Namibia, loc. Ethiopia. >> Dicranocephalus caffer
  • Lansbury. 1966. Ent. Mon. Mag. 101:155, figs 48a,b >> Note: Figures of paramere. >> Dicranocephalus caffer
  • Linnavuori. 1978. Acta Zool.Fenn. 153:9 >> Note: Loc. N Sudan, at light. >> Dicranocephalus caffer
  • Linnavuori. 1980. Act. Ent. Fenn. 36:29 >> Note: In loc. table N Sudan. >> Dicranocephalus caffer
  • Linnavuori. 1987. Acta Entomologica Fennica 49:33 >> Note: Synonymy (=Stenocephalus haoussa Villiers, 1950 fide G. Schmitz), locs Nigeria, loc. Senegal. >> Dicranocephalus caffer
  • Moulet. 1995. Nouvelle Revue d'Entomologie (N.S.) 11(1994):353, 355, 359-360, 362 >> Note: Revisional notes, synonymy (=adspersus, conspurcatus, Stenocephalus lautipes Stål, 1860, Stenocephalus haoussa Villiers, 1950, ‘Dicranocephalus glabratus Schmitz’ MS), in check list. >> Dicranocephalus caffer
  • Göllner-Scheiding. 1996. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 72(2):303-304, figs 2a,b >> Note: Figures of male genital capsule and paramere, compared with new species D. schmitzi. >> Dicranocephalus caffer
  • Linnavuori & van Harten. 1997. Fauna of Saudi Arabia 16:218 >> Note: Locs Yemen. >> Dicranocephalus caffer
  • Brailovsky, Barrera, Göllner-Scheiding & Cassis. 2001. Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 94(3):363-366   >> Note: Compared with new species D. aroonanus. >> Dicranocephalus caffer
  • Kerzhner. 2003. Zoosystematica Rossica 12:101 >> Note: As type species of Dichomerus, synonymy (=adspersus), LT designated for its junior subjective synonym Stenocephalus adspersus Jakovlev, 1901. >> Dicranocephalus caffer
  • Dolling. 2006. In Aukema & Rieger [Ed.]. Catalogue of Heteroptera of the Palaearctic Region 5:4 >> Note: Catalogued (=lautipes, adspersa, haoussa, conspurcatus), Saudi Arabia, Yemen, tropical Africa. >> Dicranocephalus caffer
• Scrutiny:
  • Dolling, 2013, Both Schmitz in Linnavuori, 1987: 33 and Moulet, 1995b: 353, 359-360 considered D. haoussa Villiers, 1950 to be a junior synonym of this species but Lansbury, 1966: 80 asserted that ‘the parameres of the two species are clearly different.’
• Type specimen information:
  • There are multiple primary types, see specimen data for details.

• synonym adspersus (Jakovlev, 1901)

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