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Issue: Vol. 4147 No. 5: 8 Aug. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-08-08
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4147.5.4
Page range: 564–574
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Chilocoris capensis n. sp., the first species of the genus Chilocoris Mayr, 1865 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Cydnidae) recorded in the Republic of South Africa with an annotated checklist of South African burrower bugs

Center for Biodiversity Studies, Department of Biosystematics, Opole University, Oleska 22, 45-052 Opole, Poland
Laboratory of Invertebrate Zoology, Department of Biosystematics, Opole University, Oleska 22, 45-052 Opole, Poland
School of Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, United Kingdom Department of Zoology and Entomology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Hemiptera burrower bugs new species taxonomy morphology Afrotropics broom cluster fig Cape fig Ficus sur

Abstract

Chilocoris capensis n. sp. collected from fallen ripe figs of broom cluster fig Ficus sur Forsskål, 1775, the first burrower bug species of the genus Chilocoris Mayr, 1865 recorded in the Republic of South Africa, is described and compared with Chilocoris laevicollis Horváth, 1919, the morphologically most closely allied Afrotropical species. Additionally, an annotated checklist of burrower bug species recorded in the Republic of South Africa is provided. The known biology of Afrotropical Chilocoris species is briefly summarized.

 

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