Mezira angolensis Hoberlandt, 1967

Kment, Petr, Kolínová, Zdislava & Heiss, Ernst, 2015, Catalogue of the type specimens of true bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic *, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 55 (1), pp. 411-443 : 424

Mezira angolensis Hoberlandt, 1967

Mezira angolensis Hoberlandt, 1967b: 140–142 , Fig. 10 (original description), 147 (key).

Three paratypes are deposited in NMPC:

PARATYPES (3 JJ): ‘Luachimo 13.VI.49 [hw] / Dundo, Angola / A B Machado lgt. [p] // Ang. No. [p] 1513.2 [hw] / Coll A.B.Machado [p] // Paratypus [p] J / Mezira / angolensis, n. sp. [hw] / Det. L. Hoberlandt, 19[p]65 [hw, red label]’.

Current status. Valid species: Brachyrhynchus angolensis (Hoberlandt, 1967) (see KORMILEV & FROESCHNER 1987).

Remarks. According to the original description the species was based on the male holotype only; no paratypes were mentioned (cf. HOBERLANDT 1967b). The J holotype was originally cited as deposited in Museum Dundo, Lunda, Angola. Obviously it is not present in NMPC, but it is uncertain it was really returned to Angola.