Neuroctenus arnoldi Hoberlandt, 2023

Heiss, Ernst, 2023, A new species, a new synonymy, a revised generic assignment and new records in some African and Palaearctic Aradidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera), Zootaxa 5315 (5), pp. 469-478 : 473

‘ Neuroctenus arnoldi Hoberlandt n. sp. ’

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Material examined. ‘ Neuroctenus arnoldi n. sp. ’: 1♁ ( Fig. 6 ) 1♀, ‘Chirinda Forest / S. Rhodesia. / Nov. 1930 [p] / [black line] / Rhodesia Museum [p, black line on upper and bottom margin] Paratypus [p] ♁ [hw] / Neuroctenus / arnoldi n. sp. [hw] / Det. L. Hoberlandt 19[p]57[hw, pink label] // Paratypus [p] ♀ [hw] / Neuroctenus / arnoldi n. sp. [hw] / Det. L. Hoberlandt 19[p]57[hw, pink label] // n. sp. prope / socialis Horv. [p] // ( NMPC).

Comment. On one of the labels attached to a female intended paratype, Hoberlandt stated that this species is near N. socialis Horváth, 1910 . There are more than twenty species of Neuroctenus Fieber, 1860 described from continental Africa, and there is no key available. The African species of this genus need a revision before the specimens of ‘ N. arnoldi ’ can be identified, therefore their identity remains unknown.

Figures

FIGURES 1–6. 1—‘Aradus africanus’ (unavailable) (= A. gracilipes Linnavuori, 1978), intended paratype from Chad, male; 2—Aradus gracilipes from Chad, male; 3—‘Aradus interpositus’ (unavailable) (= A. congoensis sp. nov.), intended holotype from Democratic Republic of the Congo, male; 4—‘Aradus nuristanicus’ (unavailable) (= A. betulae (Linnaeus, 1758)), intended holotype from Afghanistan, male; 5—‘Carventus machadoi’ (unavailable), intended paratype from Angola, female; 6—‘Neuroctenus arnoldi’ (unavailable), intended holotype from Zimbabwe, male. Scales: 1 mm.