Patapius (Pseudopatapius) africanus Drake & Hoberlandt, 1951

Kment, Petr & Kolínová, Zdislava, 2013, Catalogue of type specimens of true bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 53 (2), pp. 821-890 : 877

Patapius (Pseudopatapius) africanus Drake & Hoberlandt, 1951

Patapius (Pseudopatapius) africanus Drake & Hoberlandt, 1951: 10–13 , Figs 1, 3 –5 (original description).

The holotype and two paratypes are deposited in NMPC:

HOLOTYPE (J): ‘Dundo, Lunda / Angola [p] XI. 48 [hw] / A B.Machado lgt. [p] // Ang. [p] 1197.7 [hw] coll.A.B Machado [p] // Holotypus [p, red label] // Holotypus [p] / Pseudopatapius / africanus gen. et sp. n. /J C.J.Drake et [hw] / Det. L. Hoberlandt, 19[p]50 [hw, red label]’.

PARATYPE (J): ‘Dundo, Lunda / Angola [p] XI. 48 [hw] / A B Machado lgt [p] // Ang. [p] 1197. 7 [hw] / coll.A. B.Machado [p] // Paratypus [p, red label] // Paratypus [p] / Pseudopatapius / africanus gen. et sp. n. / C.J.Drake et [hw] / Det. L. Hoberlandt, 19[p]50 [hw, red label]’. (Left antenna, right hemelytron, and apex of abdomen missing; male genitalia dissected, mounted on two separate slides deposited in Slide Box 5).

PARATYPE (♀): ‘Dundo, Lunda / Angola [p] VI. 48 [hw] / A. B. Machado lgt [p] // Luachimo [hw] / Ang. [p] 829. 16 [hw] / coll.A.B.Machado [p] // Paratypus [p, red label] // Paratypus [p] / Pseudopatapius / africanus gen. et sp. n. / ♀ C.J.Drake et [hw] / Det. L. Hoberlandt, 19[p]50 [hw, red label] // Mus. Nat. Pragae / Inv. [p] 1063 [hw, orange label]’.

Current status. Valid species (see POLHEMUS 1981, SCHUH et al. 1987).

Figures

Figs 1−4. Type labels of Ludvík Hoberlandt. 1−2 – Velia rhadamantha Hoberlandt, 1941, holotypus, characteristic style of labels in the 1940s; 3−4 – Sigara samani Hoberlandt, 1952, characteristic labels for the 1950s and later period. (Photos: L. Macháčková).