Khafra elegans (Breddin, 1901)

Krüger, Andreas, 2019, Notes on Afrotropical Enicocephalidae and Reduviidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) with emphasis on vehicle-mounted net samples from Liberia, West Africa, Zootaxa 4688 (2), pp. 232-248 : 238

Khafra elegans (Breddin, 1901)

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Material examined: LIBERIA: Bong county, Bong mine Dam 12, 29.–30.v.1989, at light, leg. Rolf Garms (1 ♂) .

Distribution: New for Liberia. Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea (Bioko), Guinea, Ivory Coast.

Remark: Jeannel (1912) had keyed three species under the genus Macrospongus , and Villiers (1948) keyed three (two more were later synonymized) of the 11 known species ( Maldonado Capriles, 1990). Taken together, the present specimen unequivocally represents K. elegans .

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FIGURE 3. Reduviidae. A, Fusius dilutus liberiensis; B, Hediocoris sp.; C, Khafra elegans; D, Lisarda vandenplasi. Genus Microstemmatodes. E+F, habitus and paramere of M. occidentalis observed from different angles; G+H, M. atrocyanea, specimen from Cameroon (Zoologisches Museum Hamburg). Scale bars: A–D, E+G, 5 mm; F+H, 0.5 mm.