Documenting museum records of West African Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) in Benin and Senegal.

Autor: Hounkpati K; Grain de Sel Togo, Inc., Athens, United States of America Grain de Sel Togo, Inc. Athens United States of America.; Department of Entomology, University of Georgia, Athens, United States of America Department of Entomology, University of Georgia Athens United States of America., McHugh JV; Department of Entomology, University of Georgia, Athens, United States of America Department of Entomology, University of Georgia Athens United States of America., Niang AA; Laboratoire de Zoologie des Invertébrés Terrestres, Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal Laboratoire de Zoologie des Invertébrés Terrestres, Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire Cheikh Anta Diop Dakar Senegal., Goergen G; International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Cotonou, Benin International Institute of Tropical Agriculture Cotonou Benin.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Biodiversity data journal [Biodivers Data J] 2020 Jan 17; Vol. 8, pp. e47340. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 Jan 17 (Print Publication: 2020).
DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.8.e47340
Abstrakt: Background: This work provides a preliminary inventory of West African Coccinellidae.This was based on the West African Coccinellidae (WAC) specimens in the holdings of insect collections at the Laboratoire de Zoologie des Invertébrés Terrestres at the Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire Cheikh Anta Diop (IFAN), Senegal and the Biodiversity Center at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITAB), Benin.
New Information: A total of 129 species representing 11 tribes and 40 genera is reported, including one species of the subfamily Microweiseinae and 128 species of the subfamily Coccinellinae. The geographic distribution of collection localities is presented for these species. Cheilomenes lunata (Fabricius, 1775), Cheilomenes propinqua (Mulsant, 1850), Cheilomenes sulphurea (Olivier, 1791), Chnootriba elaterii (Rossi, 1794), Chnootriba similis (Thunberg, 1781), Exochomus laeviusculus Weise, 1909, Hyperaspis delicatula (Mulsant, 1850) and Hyperaspis pumila Mulsant, 1850 are the best represented species in these collections.
(Kwevitoukoui Hounkpati, Joseph V. McHugh, Abdoul Aziz Niang, Georg Goergen.)
Databáze: MEDLINE