Alphitobius kochi
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Ordo: Coleoptera
Familia: Tenebrionidae
Genus: Alphitobius
Name
Alphitobius kochi Ardoin, 1958 – Wikispecies link – ZooBank link – Pensoft Profile
Type specimens examined
Cameroon, N’Kongsamba, XI.1956, leg. J. Cantaloube, 4 paratypes TMSA, 2 paratypes NHMB, 1 paratype MNB, 1 paratype ZSM.
New material
Cameroon, Bambui, 9 miles NE Bamenda, 1450 m, 29.X.1966, leg. E. S. Ross & K. Lorenzen, 1 ex. CRA. – Cameroon, Doala, 10 m, 20.X.1966, leg. E. S. Ross & K. Lorenzen, 7 ex. CRA, 2 ex. SMNS, 1 ex. CRG. – Ivory Coast, 10 miles SE Touba, 420 m, 20.VIII.1966, leg. E. S. Ross & K. Lorenzen, 12 ex. CRA, 2 ex. SMNS. – Liberia, Cari Suakoko, 17.III.1988, leg. F.-T. Krell, 1 ex. SMNS. – Togo/Ghana, border area, Brou fou, 27.X.1984, leg. K. Erber, 1 ex. SMNS.
Type locality
“N’Kongsamba”.
Distribution
Cameroon (type locality), Ivory Coast (Ardoin 1969[1], Bremer and Girard 1996[2]); Liberia, Togo, Ghana (new records).
Taxon Treatment
- Schawaller, W; Grimm, R; 2014: The genus Alphitobius Stephens (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae, Alphitobiini) in Africa and adjacent islands ZooKeys, 415: 169-190. doi
Other References
- ↑ Ardoin P (1969) Contribution à la connaissance de la faune entomologique de la Côte-d’Ivoire (J. Decelle, 1961–1964). XXXVII. Coleoptera Tenebrionidae. Annales du Musèe royale de l’Afrique centrale (série Zoologie) 175: 139–285, pls. I–XI.
- ↑ Bremer H, Girard C (1996) L‘Entomofaune des Termitières mortes de Macrotermes. Occurrence of Alphitobius lamottei Ardoin in the chamber of dead termitaries (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae, Alphitobiini). Revue française d’Entomologie (NS) 18: 135–137.
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