Fusius dilutus liberiensis Dispons, 1969

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 : 236

Fusius dilutus liberiensis Dispons, 1969

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Material examined: LIBERIA: Bong county, trip Gbayamu –Liberia Research Unit (Bong Mine) , 6°48′N 10°21′W, 7.vi.1989, 9:50–10:25 am, vehicle-mounted net, leg. Rolf Garms (1 ♂).

Distribution: Liberia.

Remark: Described and keyed as one of several new species of the originally monotypic genus by Miller (1957), it was subsequently reduced to a subspecies by Dispons (1969). Its main features are the bicolored anterior pronotal lobe and the shape of the apical process of pygophore.

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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.