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The African species of Theganopteryx (Blattaria, Ectobiidae)
Author(s) -
Kumar R.,
Prinis K.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
systematic entomology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.552
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1365-3113
pISSN - 0307-6970
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-3113.1978.tb00385.x
Subject(s) - biology , genus , zoology , key (lock) , ecology
Twenty‐one species of the genus Theganopteryx are known from Africa and the genus is probably confined to this continent. A key is provided to the males of twenty species, and eight new species are described: affinis Shelford; bivitatta Princis; bredoi sp.n.; camerunensis Shelford; dimorpha Princis; fantastica Shelford; flavescens sp.n.; heterogamia Princis; ituriensis Rehn; kivuensis sp.n.; lucidu Brunner; nitida Borg; notata Shelford; obscura Shelford; propinqua sp.n.; remotevittata (Werner); rhodesiae Shelford; shabaenis sp.n.; shelfordi sp.n.; simillima sp.n.; villiersi sp.n. Notes are given on eighteen further species of doubtful identity which have hitherto been included in Theganopteiyx , and one of these, perspicillaris Karny, is transferred to a new genus Theganosilpha .