Pteropera carnapi Ramme 1929
Year: 2024
Type: other
Abstract: Pteropera carnapi Ramme, 1929 Figs 3 A, B, 8 A, B Pteropera biloloca Sjöstedt 1931: 28; Dirsh 1965: 339. Pteropera carnapi Ramme 1929: 364; Donskoff 1981: 59. Type material examined. Holotype. Cameroon • ♂; Yaoundé; 3 ° 50.883 ' N, 11 ° 30 ' 7 " E; Jun. 1887; V. Carnap leg.; MfN, BA 000180 S 01 - DORSA. Other material examined. Cameroon • 4 ♀♀; Ongot; 3 ° 42.517 ' N, 11 ° 15.167 ' E; 15 Jun. 2020; J. A. Yetchom Fondjo leg.; SMNK. Cameroon • 2 ♂♂; Iboti, Ebo forest; 4 ° 27.001 ' N, 10 ° 27.002 ' E, 731 m a. s. l.; 7 Jan. 2022; J. A. Yetchom Fondjo leg.; SMNK. Cameroon • 9 ♂♂, 4 ♀♀; Deng-Deng National Park; 3 ° 21.364 ' N, 12 ° 44.615 ' E, 731 m a. s. l.; 12 Jun. 2022; A. R. Nzoko Fiemapong leg.; SMNK. Redescription. Frontal ridge raised above the median ocelli, prominent between the antennae; head and pronotum with well contrasted pale and dark colors; subocellar facial spot large; lower margin of elytra shiny black; meso- and metathoracic episternites yellow in their center; front legs, ventral area of hind femora yellow-green; dorsal area of the body and upper areas of hind femora more or less dark brown; hind tibiae bluish-green; male pallium and supra-anal plate raised; male cerci bilobate, with inner lobe equal to or longer than the outer lobe. Epiphallus (Fig. 15 A): Ancorae small and closer to each other; bridge arched; anterior projections prominent, triangular. Phallic complex (Fig. 15 B – D): dorsal arch of cingulum U-shaped, apodemes slender, clearly overhanging or exceeding level of separation of endophallic valves, with strongly incurved apex; upper ectophallic sheath very long in profile; lower ectophallic sheath not covering or enveloping the base of the rami; rami not bent; aedeagus valves in the form of a thin blade; latero-ventral sclerite triangular. Distribution. Cameroon; Central African Republic; Gabon; Congo (Fig. 16 B).
Authors: Yetchom Fondjo, Jeanne Agrippine, Nzoko Fiemapong, Armand Richard, Tindo, Maurice, Duressa, Tarekegn Fite, Ivković, Slobodan, Husemann, Martin
Language: English
Subfield: Genetics
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W6911634962
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